The present paper is intended to explore what effects the group art therapy may exercise on promoting ego-identity of the youth who are accommodated at welfare centers for women and children.
For this purpose, a research was conducted from Feb. 8 to M...
The present paper is intended to explore what effects the group art therapy may exercise on promoting ego-identity of the youth who are accommodated at welfare centers for women and children.
For this purpose, a research was conducted from Feb. 8 to May 3, 2011 beginning from sampling of the subjects, practice of pre-test, implementation and application of the group art therapy, post-test and data processing in order.
The subjects of the research were sampled from the middle school students who were accommodated in S Welfare Center located in G City, J Province. Of the inmates of the welfare facility, 7 youth aged 14 to 16 were sampled out and given the 60-minute long test twice a week and a total of 16 sessions.
For this research, the following test paper was used: questionnaires based on 'ego-identity scale' developed by Dignan(1965), translated and adapted for use of Koreans (middle and high school as well as college students) by Bongyeon Seo(1974) and revised and complemented by Acheong Park(2003). A qualitative analysis was carried out, in addition, to determine any changes before and after the test using K-HTP(Kinetic HouseㆍTreeㆍPerson). The collected data were put to pre- and post-analysis by means of SPSS 18.0 statistical program.
From the outcomes of the study, it was made known that the group art therapy could affect to enhance self-identity of the youth accommodated in the welfare centers for women and children. A significant difference (z=2.371, tie value=7, P<0.009, one-way verification) was shown between the pre- and post-tests for overall ego-identity by using Wilcoxon Signed Rank Test, a non-parametric test.
From the analysis of the pictorial test by K-HTP, a positive change turned out to occur in promoting ego-identity between the pictures made before and after the test. That is, expression of self image was not clearly recognized and focus was given to drawing one's side features in the previous pictures while, in the pictures made afterwards, more active and positive way was expressly demonstrated by depicting own images from the front view in dark color.
It is thus clearly recognized that the group art therapy could have influence upon promoting ego-identity of the youth accommodated in the welfare centers.