자아개념 증진 집단미술활동이 아동의 공경성과 우울에 미치는 영향

The effects of self-concept improvement group art activity on children's aggression and depression

오늘날 우리나라 청소년 비행과 범죄는 해를 거듭해 갈수록 증가하고 있어서 심각한 사회 문제 중 하나로 대두되고 있다. 본 연구는 비행과 범죄의 요소가 되고 있는 공격성과 우울을 보이는 청소년 시기와 근접해 있는 초등학교 고학년 아동을 대상으로 자아개념을 증진시키기 위한 집단미술치료를 실시함으로써 아동의 공격성과 우울을 감소하는데 연구의 목적이 있으며, 그 효과성을 파악하기 위한 연구 설계는 사전-사후검사 통제집단 설계로 연구하였다. 본 연구는 2002년 12월부터 2003년 3월까지 실험집단 5명과 통제집단 5명으로 총 10명의 대상으로 하였으며, 수집된 자료는 t-test로 분석하였다.

The rate of teenagers' misconduct and delinquency has been increased and those have been a big social issue these days. The purpose of this study was to reduce their aggression and depression causing their misconduct and delinquency as a consequence of improving children's self-concept. For this, we carried out Group Art Therapy Program for high-grade students in elementary school. The research design was the pretest-posttest control group design. The subjects were selected 5 students as an experimental group and 5 students as a control group. Then the program was applied to these groups from December in 2002 to March in 2003. The results were tested by t-test method and the hypotheses were mostly accepted at the .05 of α-level. The results and discussion of this study were as follows: First, the level of self-concept of experimental group was significantly higher than that of the control group in the post-test, and thus this difference could be meaningful statistically. Secondly, the level of aggression of experimental group was significantly lower than that of the control group in the post-test, thus this difference could be meaningful statistically. Thirdly, the level of depression of experimental group was lower than that of the control group in the post-test, thus this difference could be meaningful statistically. Finally, as the results of each session analysis, the level of aggression and depression of experimental group was significantly lower than that of the control group in the post-test. Therefore, the program was ascertained to be effective. In the view of the results so far achieved, we can recognize self-concept improvement art therapy program has influence on reducing children's aggression and depression as a consequence of improving their self-concept.