The effectiveness of clay therapy and narrative therapy on anxiety of pre-school children: a comparative study

Abstract

Data was collected from thirty six year old children with the objective to examine the effectiveness of clay therapy on reducing anxiety in them. For examining children's anxiety CSI-4 test developed by Gadow & Sprafkin, (1994) was employed which was answered by parents of children. Data was subjected to one- way analysis of variance. It showed significant difference on anxiety scores among groups (F=74.2, p<0.01). Scheffe test was employed to analyze pairs of means to see if there is a difference, which showed significant difference on anxiety of control group in post-test comparing with clay group and narrative group. No significant difference was found among clay group and narrative group respectively.