The purpose of this study is to examine the effect of group art therapy using Korean painting medium on the attention of the elementary school students. The study subjects are 4-6 graded elementary school students who go to OO elementary school in S-g...
The purpose of this study is to examine the effect of group art therapy using Korean painting medium on the attention of the elementary school students. The study subjects are 4-6 graded elementary school students who go to OO elementary school in S-gu S-si. They are divided into an experimental group and a controled group, 8 students for each group. Art therapy using Korean painting medium have been carried out only on the subject group 14 times total, once a week for 80 minute for each session. For research tools, the tools for measuring the focus ability was devised by H. Moosbrugger and J. Oehlschegel and FAIR attention focus test adapted and standardized by Ohhyeonsuk(2002) was used. After confirming the identical group through an independence sample T verification, the analysis of concentration effect of elementary school students performed mixed analysis of variance on the overall change of attention, and selective attention, self-control, and attention lasting which are the sub-factor of attention. Statistical program, SPSS 12.0 was used with the collective data. In this study, the results obtained through this process are summarized as follows. Art therapy program using Korean painting was effective in improving attention of the elementary students. These research results taken together, group art therapy using Korean painting medium has have a positive effect on improving the elementary school students' attention. This study has its significance in that korean painting using program has been tried and Korean painting medium rather than western painting medium has searched for the positive possibility for attention.