The purpose of this study is to measure the effectiveness of group art therapy program on children's creativity. The subject were elementary school in D city. Among them, 15 were placed in the experimental group and 15 in the control group.
The exp...
The purpose of this study is to measure the effectiveness of group art therapy program on children's creativity. The subject were elementary school in D city. Among them, 15 were placed in the experimental group and 15 in the control group.
The experimental group was treated by researcher who leads art activities and the discussion but the control group did not receive any training at all. To form this study, the group art therapy program was carried out 4 sessions a week. Each session being allocated 60 minutes. M(mean), SD(standard deviation) and ANOVA using Spss for windows 10.0 program were employed to analyze data collected by creativity scale. Also this study was performed qualitative analysis to know children's creativity.
The results of research were as follows; First, children's creativity scale in the experimental group was significantly proved than that of the control group. Second, group members creativity were definitely proved through the group art therapy process. Third, the most change field among sub-field of creativity was proved lack of display. From this result, it is suggested that group art therapy is effective in prove of children's creativity.