College Students’ Self-Acceptance: A Paint Therapy Group Counseling Intervention

Abstract

This research highlights the effect of paint therapy group counseling on college students’ achievement in the field of education. For this purpose, we have used a quasiexperimental design with pretest/posttest of control group and experimental group. The sample used in our experiment consists of 18 students at a university in Guangdong Province. Participants were randomly assigned to two groups, i.e., experimental group and control group, and completed pretest and posttest measures of self-acceptance and self-evaluation over 2 months. The difference between the two groups before and after the intervention was determined using an independent-samples t-test. We have also used a paired-sample t-test to compare the effects of the intervention on the experimental achievement scores of the groups. The results showed that the self-acceptance score in the experimental group’s posttest was 40.78 ± 6.91 (t = 3.66, $p<0.01$ ), while the scores of self-acceptance factor and self-evaluation factor were 20.67 ± 4.12 (t = 3.19, $p<0.05$ ) and 20.11 ± 3.59 (t = 3.71, $p<0.01$ ), respectively. Besides, the two months, posttest follow-up showed that the self-acceptance score was 43.67 ± 4.64 (t = 1.0, $p<0.05$ ), and the scores of self-acceptance factor and self-evaluation factor were 22.11 ± 2.85 (t = 4.06, $p<0.01$ ) and 21.56 ± 2.65 (t = 2.86, $p<0.05$ ), respectively.