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KMID : 1148220190150040231
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Journal of Arts Psychotherapy
2019 Volume.15 No. 4 p.231 ~ p.246
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An Effect of Music Therapy on the Depression, Interpersonal Relationship and Ego-Integrity of the Elderly
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Choi Ae-Na
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Abstract
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This study is to investigate an effect of music therapy on the elderly's depression, interpersonal relationship ,and ego-integrity. Accordingly, the subjects of this study are 20 senior citizens who are 70 years old or older living in old- aged welfare facilities in S city. Among them, 10 senior citizens were randomly assigned to an experimental group and 10 senior citizens were randomly assigned to a control group. From January 10, 2019, the center performed the music therapy every 50 minutes twice a week totally 12 times to the experimental music program. The music program consisted of relaxation?response-meditation after listening to music, singing a song, lyric analysis, playing the percussion instrument, image drawing after listening to music, expressing a movement after listening to music and so on. Broadly speaking, the findings after the research are based on pre- and post-test of the control group, which are designed to measure mean and standard deviation and are based on SPSS Statistics 20.0 program to implement Wilcoxon signed-rank test. The summary of the researcher's results is as follows: First, the music therapy program affects the depression of the elderly. Second, the music therapy program affects the interpersonal relationship of the elderly. Thirdly, it is noted that the music therapy program affects the subfactors of the ego integrity of the elderly that consist of wise life, attitude toward life, current life satisfaction, and acceptance of aging among the 6 subfactors of the ego integrity of the elderly. Therefore, it is concluded that the use of a music therapy program of this research positively affects a promotion of the decrease in depression, increase of interpersonal relationship, and ego-integrity of the elderly.
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KEYWORD
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Music Therapy, The elderly, Depression, Interpersonal Relationship, Ego-Integrity
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