This study aimed to investigate the effects of a group art therapy on the adolescents from single-parent
families in terms of their emotional intelligence. The subjects of this research were comprised of 18
teenagers from single-parent families who are attending in the first or second year of a middle school in K
City, All of them expressed their wishes to participate in the group art therapy with the consent of their
parents. Nine students were allocated to the experimental group and the other nine students were allocated
to the control group. The program was conducted on the experimental group from September 16 to October
31, 2014, twice a week, for 90 minutes for each session, comprising a total of 13 sessions. The juvenile
emotional intelligence test made by Mun Yong-lin (1999) based on the recently revised model of emotional
intelligence developed by Mayer and Salovey (1997) was conducted as A pre-and postttests. In order to
verify homogeneity between the experiment group and the control group, an independent t-test was
conducted, and to investigate the differences between scores for the pre- and posttests, a repeated measure
ANOVA was used for analysis. The research outcomes produced through the aforementioned methods
suggest that group art therapy has positive impacts on the emotional intelligence of adolescents from
single-parent families.