The purpose of this study was not only to see whether group
cognitive-behavioral art therapy can have an effect on adolescent smoker's
smoking, but also to provide basic data for further group cognitive-behavioral
art therapy to prevent adolescents from smoking. That is, the data can be
used for early education of stop-smoking or no-smoking. Subjects were
students ranging from 10th to 12th year selected from a vocational high
school in Pusan who are eleven students including two females. They
receiving the total 10 sessions of art therapy, except for the preliminary
interview session at the audiovisual archives within the school library during
the period of May through June of 2007. Research instruments adopted are
the tests of smoking impulse, life stress and amount of smoking and
smoking quantity is measured in a self-reporting style. For data analysis,
Repeated Measurement of One-Way ANOVA is taken on the results of
pre-test, post-test, and follow-up test.
The results from the study are as follows.
First, cognitive-behavioral art therapy is no significant statistical difference
to reduce the adolsecent smoker's impulse of smoking.
Second, cognitive-behavioral art therapy is effective to reduce the
adolsecent smoker's life stress.
Third, cognitive-behavioral art therapy is effective to reduce adolsecent
smokers' quantity or amount of smoking.
Thus, it is inferable from the results described above that group art
therapy applied to the no-smoking programs for adolescents turns out to be
effective, and further studies on such programs are expected.