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The purpose of this study is to understand how the mandala-applied group art therapy would affect anger control and peer relationship of children. The study conducted its investigation targeting children who were registered in local child-care centers, P, K and N, located in a city, M. Of all those 20 children who have shown interest in joining the program, ten children of P local child-care center and other ten children in K and N local child-care center were divided into an experimental group and a control group, respectively. Both the experimental group and the control group went through a pre-test and a post-test as well and, in terms of the experimental group, they were instructed to visit twice a week to get twelve 60-minute group art therapy sessions. In order to achieve the research goal, the study focused on these problems presented as follows. First, will the mandala-applied group art therapy improve anger control of children? Second, will the mandala-applied group art therapy enhance the children's peer relationship? As for the mandala-applied group art therapy practised in this study, the researcher re-designed the therapy properly as looking into the mandala art therapy of Jeong, Yeo Joo(2013), Choi, Hyo Sook(2012)'s emotional intelligence improvement program focusing on mandala, Moon, Mi Sook (2011)'s group art therapy program to improve anger control using clay and Kang, Yeon Hee(2008)'s emotional intelligence improvement program to enhance peer relationship as well. The researcher designed the content of the program focusing on mandala in order to improve anger control and peer relationship of children. Regarding measuring tools, the study used the anger control scale and the peer relationship scale and, to see how the mandala-applied group art therapy program would influence anger control and peer relationship of the children, the research subjects, the study conducted the pre-test and the post-test targeting both the experimental group and the control group using the scales. SPSS WIN 18.0 non-parametric statistical test program was applied to analyzing changes in anger control and peer relationship, and the changes were verified and confirmed. When it comes to the anger control scale and the peer relationship scale, the study wanted to verify the effects of the program after the group art therapy program was all finished, and because of that, the study had to run the post-test under the same conditions of the pre-test, first, before it began analyzing. The experimental group and the control group were observed to have differences in how they control anger(p<.01) and, in case of peer relationship, the average score of the experimental group increased to 3.34 ex post from 3.00 ex ante, and that proved how useful it can be to peer relationship(p<.05). The key results of the study are summarized as follows. Firstly, it was observed that in general, anger control of the children attending the mandala-applied group art therapy has improved significantly. Secondly, the level of peer relationship of the children joining the mandala-applied group art therapy has increased significantly, and that is considered a proof for positive effects. In the light of what has been learned so far, the study confirmed that the mandala-applied group art therapy is efficient at enhancing children's anger control and peer relationship. In addition, the meditation session at the beginning and end of the mandala activity helped the children experience this internal calm, affecting positively the children when they tried to get confident about themselves as finally finding the core of theirs. In this regard, the study believes that this mandala-applied group art therapy has a progressive influence on the children's anger control and peer relationship.

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본 연구는 만다라를 활용한 집단미술치료가 아동의 분노조절과 또래관계에 미치는 효 과를 알아보고자 하는데 있다. 연구를 위해 M시의 지역아동센터를 이용하는 초등학 교 저학년 아동 20명 중 10명을 실험집단으로, 10명은 통제집단으로 구성하였다. 실험 집단과 통제집단에게 사전-사후검사를 실시하였으며, 실험집단은 만다라를 활용한 집 단미술치료를 2014년 2월 4일부터 2014년 2월 28일까지 주 2회 방문하여 매회 60분씩 2회기를 연결하여 실시하였으며 모두 12회기에 걸쳐 실시하였다. 본 연구를 위한 측정도구로는 Morganet(1994)가 제작한 분노조절검사를 남궁희승 (1997)이 초등학교 아동을 대상으로 번안한 분노조절검사와, 홍옥순(1984)이 개발하고 강연희(2008)가 수정한 또래관계 척도를 사용하였으며, Buck(1948)이 개발한 집-나무- 사람(H-T-P) 검사와 Knoff & Prout(1985)가 개발한 동적학교생활화(KSD)를 사용하였 다. 연구결과 분노조절 전체에서 실험집단과 통제집단의 차이가 있었으며(p<.01), 또래 관계의 경우 실험집단에서 전체에서 평균점수가 사전 3.00에서 사후 3.34로 증가하여 또래관계에서도 유용하였음을 알 수 있었다(p<.05). 본 연구를 통해 얻어진 주요 결과 를 요약하면 첫째, 만다라를 활용한 집단미술치료에 참가한 아동들의 분노조절이 전 체적으로 유의하게 향상되었음을 알 수 있었고, 둘째, 만다라를 활용한 집단미술치료 에 참가한 아동들의 또래관계 수준은 유의하게 증진되어 긍정적인 효과가 있음을 알 수 있었다. 이상과 같은 결과를 통하여 만다라를 활용한 집단미술치료가 아동의 분노 조절 향상과 또래관계 증진에 효과가 있음을 확인할 수 있었다.