The effect of therapeutic painting and play therapy on the creativity and behavioral problems of elementary school elementary school students

Subject Areas : Educational

Syavash SHeykhalizadeh ¹ ( Assistant Professor, Department of Educational Sciences, Shahid Madani University of Azerbaijan, Tabriz, Iran )

Received: 2020-01-23 Accepted : 2020-08-31 Published : 2022-11-22

Keywords: play therapy, Painting therapy, Creativity, Elementary Students, behavioral problems,

Abstract :

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of therapeutic painting and play therapy on the creativity and behavioral problems of elementary school students in Tabriz. This was a quasi-experimental design with pre-test and post-test design with control group. The statistical population of this study was all students of primary school boys in Tabriz in the academic year of 2018-2019. Multi-stage random cluster sampling was used to select the sample. First, 4 districts were selected from the districts of Tabriz, and from the schools of that district, three primary schools were randomly selected, and from each of the three schools, 1 class was randomly selected, and then from knowledge. The selected school students were randomly assigned to 45 students in 3 groups, the first experimental painting (15 subjects), the second experimental group of experimental play therapy (15 subjects) and control (15 subjects). The subjects of the first experimental group underwent painting therapy for 10 sessions and the second experimental group underwent therapy for 10 sessions and did not receive any training in front of the control group. Research questionnaires including Creativity Scale (Abedi, 1993) and Behavioral Problems Scale (Rutter, 1976) were selected. Data were analyzed using multivariate analysis of covariance and post-test. The results of this study showed that painting and therapeutic games have an effect on creativity and behavioral problems of students. Also, the results of post hoc test showed that painting therapy has a greater effect on creativity and game therapy on students' behavioral problems. According to the results, painting therapy and play therapy have been effective in improving creativity and reducing students' behavioral problems. As a result, it seems necessary to create the necessary grounds for holding painting therapy and play therapy sessions in schools, which can be effective in improving the psychological and educational status of these students.  

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