This study examine the overall trends of multicultural art therapy researches and integrate them by meta-analysis to verify the effectiveness of art therapy for multicultural families objectively.
Therefore, A total of 84 thesis related to the art ...
This study examine the overall trends of multicultural art therapy researches and integrate them by meta-analysis to verify the effectiveness of art therapy for multicultural families objectively.
Therefore, A total of 84 thesis related to the art therapy with multicultural families from 2003 to Mar. 2014 on Research Information Service System(RISS) were collected for trends analysis. Among them 19 thesis were recollected which include pretest, posttest and comparison between them to be extracted 81 effect sizes afterward analyzed total average effect size, dependent variables, art therapy by subjects effect sizes. The results of this study were as follows:
First, to examine the overall trends of multicultural art therapy, from 2003 to 2007 there were limited studies, however from 2008 the number of studies suddenly increased till Feb. 2014. According to trend analysis classified each by session, 12 and under, 13-20, and more frequent than 21. Also, classified each by number of session per week, once a week attended is most frequent compared to twice a week. Another, classified by target study, children from multicultural families which half the studies were base approximately, then next was married immigrants otherwise there weren’t that much immigrants and followed by North Korean defectors. The form of art therapy was 85.53% were group, and methods of study was most like integrity of quantitative and qualitative study.
Second, the overall average effect size of meta-analysis on multicultural art therapy was 2.007. This shows the size of effect could be assumed as large according to Cohen’s suggestion.
Third, the effect sizes of dependent variables is maladjustment or behavioral problem(ES=11.141) is the highest then stress relief(ES=2.157), communication or interpersonal skills improvement(ES=2.033), self-development(ES=1.974), emotional stability(ES=1.430).
Forth, the effect sizes of compositional characteristics on art therapy program which is the results of the studies are statistically significant are the target of study, period of art therapy, age and gender.
Therefore art therapy is effective for multicultural families. There are meta-analysis studies on art therapy, however there weren't much studies focused on multicultural families. According to this study it has a significant analyze the effect of art therapy for multicultural families syntagmatically. However, this study dealt with 19 thesis, so it is difficult to generalize the result of this study.