미술 활동을 통한 상상 표현에서의 정서적 목표 설정에 관한연구

Abstract

Objectives The purposes of this study were to reveal elementary school students' emotional goal-setting through imaginative expression in art activities and to discuss the educational implications of emotional goal-setting in el-ementary art.
 Methods A total of 103 elementary school students (53 males, 50 females) participated in this study, comprising 48 students (46.6%) from the 2nd grade and 55 students (53.4%) from the 6th grade. The research data consisted of drawings and questionnaires in which elementary school students expressed their imaginary companions. The analysis method used was content analysis based on the emotional goal analysis criteria in imaginary expressions through art activities established for this study. T-test and cross-analysis were also performed to determine dif-ferences by grade.
 Results Four emotional goal settings were revealed in elementary school students' expressions of imaginary companions through art activities: emotion maintenance, emotion repair, self-protection, and free fantasy. Elementary school students mainly set emotion maintenance and emotion repair as emotional goals in their imag-inary expressions and rarely set self-protection and free fantasy. In expressing imaginary companions, 2nd grad-ers focused on emotion maintenance as an emotional goal, while 6th graders emphasized emotion repair in addi-tion to emotion maintenance.
 Conclusions This study contributes to identify emotional goal-settings by elementary school students in imagi-native expressions through art activities and suggests that emotional goal-setting in imaginative expressions has educational effects such as visualization of emotion, emotional understanding, and emotional regulation.