The purpose of this study is to verify the effect of the integrated arts therapy to the middle-aged women with bereavement on mourning and self-worth.
In order to verify the purpose of this study, the participants were enlisted through the online and offline want ad at community welfare centers in Busan and limited as 40~59 year-old local residents who were middle-aged women with bereavement.
On the purpose of this study, 16 participants were confirmed and divided into two each group of 8 as a control or an experimental group
by random assignment after the application deadline.
Integrated arts therapy was carried out for the experimental group for 10 sessions of 120 minutes one time a week, whereas not a single treatment was applied to the control group.
In order to verify the effect of the program, pre-post inspection for mourning and self-worth were carried out. The SPSS/WIN 20.0 was used to find out for difference between pre-post inspection of control and experimental group. For the purpose of proving the difference between control and experimental group, MANCOVA about the post inspection points was carried out with pre inspection points as covariate variable. Also analysis of the effects of group members was run parallel with report the experience of the participants, the program-specific evaluation session, based on observation for complement of statistical analysis of the quantitative research.
The results of this study are as follows :
First, mourning of the experimental group after participating integrated arts therapy was improved than control one that is not participated in the program.
Second, self-worth of the experimental group after participating integrated arts therapy was improved than control one that is not participated in the program.
According to the results, this program is useful to improve the mourning and self-worth of the middle-aged women with bereavement. Finally, the program verify the effects for the life of middle-aged women with bereavement through ''arts'' to share and care of their mouring and self-worth.