집단미술치료 프로그램이 저소득가정 청소년의 자아탄력성에 미치는 영향

Abstract

This study was to verify the effect of Group Art Therapy program on the ego resilience of Low-Income Families' Youths and to provide the basic data required it. The study was conducted on 24 young students from low income families of S Middle school with 12 of them as an experimental group and 12 as a control group using a method of random assignment method. 12 sessions of Group Art Therapy program were conducted on 12 individuals from the experimental group with sessions of 90 minutes each twice a week. The ego-resilience test was conducted to measure the effect of the program, while SPSS 18.0 WIN program was used to find out the similarity between groups with the independent samples test. In addition, the analysis of variance was conducted to verify the discrepancy in the ego-resiliency test. The results of the study were summarized as follows. First, the Group Art Therapy program was very effective on ego resilience of Low-Income Families' Youths. The young students who participated in the Group Art Therapy program showed a gradual increases in their scores as shown in the tests conducted prior to, after and subsequent tests, showing the positive effect of the therapy. Second, it was found that the Group Art Therapy program makes a good effect on young students, thus giving a significant effect on lower factors in the ego resilience such as problem solving, friendly behavior, and mood control, and it continues to make effects afterwards. Accordingly, it was verified that the Group Art Therapy program makes a good effect on Low-Income Families' Youths. Therefore, it implicates that the it can be used as a valuable tool in the consultation and psychological treatment for the youth from low income families.