Year: 2014
Type: conference-paper
Study designs: Randomized Controlled Trial, Clinical Trial
Abstract: Verbal communication is difficult for children and more difficult for aggressive ones. This research use art therapy as an effective intervention to reduce anger and increase self-esteem of aggressive children with 7 to 11 years old. Thirty children were allocated to either a control group or an art therapy group equally and randomly. The intervention was performed once weekly for 10 weeks. Self-esteem and anger were measured at the beginning and at the end of 10 weeks, using the cooper smith Self-esteem Inventory (1967) and nelson & finch (2000) children inventory of anger. After 10 weeks, the art therapy group showed significant reduction of anger (p<0/001) and improvement of self-esteem (p<0/0001) compared with control group, except the educational self-esteem subscale that did not show significant reduction in compare with control group (p<0/1). These finding suggest that art therapy can reduce anger and improve self-esteem of aggressive children. While innate characteristics of art combine with concepts of psychology approaches such as cognitive-behavioral therapy, art therapy could be a considerable intervention, especially for children.
Authors: Ramin alavinezhad, Masoumeh Mousavi, Nadereh Sohrabi
Language: English
Subfield: Conservation
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W2078021072