현실요법적 집단미술치료가 학습부진 청소년의 성취동기 및 자아개념에 미치는 효과

Abstract

This study is, first, to check how effectively group art therapy based on reality therapy can help the adolescents with learning disability acquire motivation for achievement and self perception. Study subjects are 21 first-graders of a vocational high school in K-city of Kyungbuk province, whose learning achievement belongs to the bottom 20% on the diagnosis test. Total 21 students are divided into the experimental group of 11 and the control group of 10. Research instruments are Park's Measure for Achievement Motivation (Sungjoo Park, 1986), and Jung's Measure for Self Perception (Jongjin Jung, 1996). For data analysis, ANCOVA with the pre-test as common factor is taken. The results of the study are as follows. First, group art therapy with reality therapeutic approach has been effective for achievement motivation of adolescents with learning disability. Second, group art therapy with reality therapeutic approach has influenced positively on self-perception of adolescents with learning disability. As to subcategories of self perception, it gives influence on academic, emotional, and social self perception, but it gives no influence on physical self perception. From the above results, group art therapy with reality therapeutic approach proves to be effective for achievement motivation and self perception of the adolescents with learning disabilities. Consequently, group art therapy programs can provide a useful alternative method that gives some concrete help to the adolescents with learning disability who consider themselves as failure or being neglected.