The purpose of this study was to let students recognize themselves as valuable and competent being, open themselves, trust others and keep the company and lead a positive and bright life in the application of a group art activity program to students i...
The purpose of this study was to let students recognize themselves as valuable and competent being, open themselves, trust others and keep the company and lead a positive and bright life in the application of a group art activity program to students in primary school. Research problems were as follows:
First, does the group art activity program have an effect on self-respect improvement in primary school students?
Second, does the group art activity program have an effect on improvement of keeping the company?
The subjects of this study were 320 students in the 5th grade in W primary school. 39 students was selected from them who took part in a group art activity program voluntarily as an experimental group and 38 students was under control who was practiced a group art activity program up to 10 sessions for 5 weeks over each 90 minutes for twice every week.
The group art activity program which was used for this study was a technique reflecting students' need in an art therapy workshop's data and applied in the form of modification and supplement.
As an instrument of investigation, it was used the self-respect test by Bo-Ga Choi and Gui-yeon Jeon(1993) and a friend's relationship test by Ok Soon Hong(1984).
We practiced a pre and a post test on self-respect and a friend's relationship in an experimental and a control group and got a mean and a standard deviation. We also compared and analyzed a t-test to find out the degree of meaningness.
The conclusions to my study were as follows:
First, after a pre and a post test on lower sphere of self-respect in an experimental and a control group, it showed meaningful differences in general self-respect, social self-respect, family self-respect and school self-respect. We can understand that the self-respect was improved through a group art activity program.
Second, after a pre and a post test on lower sphere of a friend's relationship in an experimental and a control group, it showed meaningful differences in the trust ,respect and general friend's relationship in the lower sphere of an experimental group. That is, it indicated that a group art activity program has an effect on trust and respect in lower sphere of a friend's relationship and an improvement of general friend's relationship.