The Effects of Christian Intergrative Art Theraphy on Spiritual Well-being and Psychological Anxiety in Adults

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to identify the effects of Christian integrative art therapy on the spiritual and psychological well-beings in normal adults. This study adopted the one group pre-post test design. Data collection were from Dec. 1 to 19, 2012. Eighty-five normal adults in J Cities. The art therapy was consisted of 10 minute reading juvenile art book(Burpo, 2012) on death and eternal life in heaven and 30 minutes free-hand drawing of the images on the heaven. The spiritual well-being was significantly increased and anxiety was significantly decreased after the therapy. There were significant negative correlation between the spiritual well-being and anxiety after therapy. Type of brief in God's existence and age were Received(January 23, 2015), Review request(January 30, 2015), Review Result(February 05, 2015) Accepted(February 28, 2015) 561-756 Dept. of Nursing, Chonbuk National University, Gumarm Dong, Jeonju, S. Korea email: js0215@daum.net 561-756 Dept. of Nursing, Chonbuk National University, Gumarm Dong, Jeonju, S. Korea email: zoo4257@daum.net (Corresponding Author) 561-756 Dept. of Nursing, Chonbuk National University, Gumarm Dong, Jeonju, S. Korea email: victim@jbnu.ac.kr The Effects of Christian Integrative Art Therapy on Spiritual Well-being and Psychological Anxiety in Adults Copyright c 2015 HSST 76 explained 17.7% of the effectiveness of spiritual well-being. To conclude, the Christian integrative art therapy on death and eternal life in heaven enhanced the spiritual well-being while reducing anxiety among normal adults.