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KMID : 1148220180140040001
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Journal of Arts Psychotherapy
2018 Volume.14 No. 4 p.1 ~ p.21
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The Effect of Art Psychotherapy Based on Gottman Theory on the Improvement of Communication of an Engaged Couple
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Kim Jung-Eun
Park Eun-Sun
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Abstract
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The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of art psychotherapy based on Gottman theory on improving communication an engaged couple. The subject of this study is first marriage couples, whose wedding dates are already set. A total of eight engaged couples enrolled on the program by filling in an online application, and they participated in the program and a subsequent interview before their marriage. Among them four couples who can participate in the program once a week were composed of an experimental group and the remaining 4 couples were selected as a control group. For the experimental group, art psychotherapy program was conducted once a week for 150 minutes to improve communication through four sessions from April 14, 2018 to May 11, 2018 and participants could not attend together at the same time, and proceeded by each couple. We applied Wilcoxon’s singed-rank test for each group to determine the differences between the groups by calculating pre and post test scores of communication, and we examined the change patterns of communication including subjective feeling of participants as qualitative data through program activities and followed interviews. The results of the study showed that art psychotherapy based on the Gottman theory had a statistically effective on improving the communication of the engaged couple. Due to subfactor, the positive communication has a significant effect, whereas negative communication does not have a statistically significant difference. These results prove that art psychotherapy based on Gottman theory is effective in improving communication of an engaged couple.
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KEYWORD
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Gottman, Art Psychotherapy, Engaged Couple, Communication
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