The object and necessity of this research is to execute the group art activity program for the adolescent and investigate the effect that it affects the anxiety and self-respect. In particular, this study is to decrease the level of anxiety and improv...
The object and necessity of this research is to execute the group art activity program for the adolescent and investigate the effect that it affects the anxiety and self-respect. In particular, this study is to decrease the level of anxiety and improve the self-respect of the juvenile by executing the group art activity program. Also, it is to construct the healthy and harmonious characterization and the positive their own world, and organize the worthy identity.
For clarifying the object of this research, the problem of this study were specified as follows.
First, does the group art activity decrease the level of anxiety in the experimental group?
Second, does the group art activity improve the self-respect in the experimental group?
This study is to execute the random assignment by the 8 students each in the experimental group and the control group among the 16 students with the low level of anxiety and the low self-respect as an object of the adolescent in one middle school located on the Hongseong-gun, Chuncheongnam-do. Also, it is to execute the group art activity through 10 times during 5 weeks two times a week.
The research instrument used in this study is as follows.
This study is to use the status-property anxiety scale test by Spielberger for measuring the adolescent anxiety, the self-respect scale, and the group art activity program, and H-T-P picture test, and Draw-A-Person-In-Rain that Choi Bo Ga and Jeon Gui Yeon(1993) studied on a basis of the researches by Coopersmith(1967), McChale, and Chaighead(1988), etc. for measuring the adolescent self-respect.
And as for the statistical packages for research for data analysis, this study is to execute t-test for recognizing the differences between the pre-test and post-test in the experimental group and the control group. In addition, for the quality analysis, this study is to record the group art activity with a cassette player and a camcorder in each semester, analyze the process activities, and observe and record the emotion and behavior change of the adolescent.
From the result of this research above, it may be summed up as follows.
First, it was rejected because the adolescent who executed the group art activity did not show the significant differences statistically in the level of anxiety compared with the control group. As a result of research on the effect of self-exposure training program for the adolescent, it partly coincided in no effect in the property anxiety.
Second, the adolescent who executed the group art activity were partly improved in the subfield of self-respect. That is, as a result of test about the differences of subfield about the post self-respect between the experimental group and the control group applied to the group art activity, there increased statistically and significantly in the total self-respect, social self-respect, and homey self-respect. But there were no significant differences in the self-respect for the school.
From the implications of this research, this researcher came to know that it needs the group art activity that makes the adolescent mind opened in the counseling and education through the art activity in the school field in an adolescent period. In addition, the adolescente formed the intimacy by taking part in the art activity collectively, and they might execute the enhancement of recognition about the self-concept with the sense of achievement and of satisfaction by finishing the works. Also, they might supply a change of free self-expression activity.
As for the suggestion of this research, first of all, it made the adolescent enjoyed their sound school lives with the emotional and psychological health and harmony by considering the psychological sides of the adolescent with the integrative approach.
Next, it is urgent to develop various realistic and systematic programs that the home and the school were connected in the character educational dimension of the adolescent in the school field as soon as possible. Also, it is urgent to made sound school environment with the investment of human and physical resources for the positive self-formation in an adolescent period.
This study suppests that the effect of anxiety and self-esteem on adolescents through out group art therapy