The purpose of this study is to the effects of expressive activity learning on college students' emotion and
self-esteem. For this purpose, this researcher sampled students of colleges and universities located in D city
and divided them into the experimental and the control groups, respectively consisting of 53 and 57 members.
Then the researcher applied small parts of the current expressive activity curriculum, which were especially
for 3rd to 6th grades, to the subjects over 14 weeks with 1 session per week based. Measurement devices
used for this study were the Self-Esteem Scale, which had been appropriately adapted by Jeon Byeong-Je, and
the Emotion Scale, which had been developed by Lee Eun-Young(1991). For this study, both the scales were
tested in terms of validity and reliability and then restructured. Data were statistically processed in accordance
with the SPSS 20.0 Program. To determine how the sub-factors of self-esteem and emotion, the exploratory
factor analysis was conducted. Learning differences in anxiousness-related emotion(ARE) and disappointment
-related emotion(DRE), which belong to those sub-factors, were analyzed through the repeated measure
ANOVA. How the factors are before and after expressive activity learning was investigated through the
paired t-test and then the independent t-test. The influences of emotion on self-esteem were examined through
the multi-regression analysis using the enter method. For all these moves, the level of statistical significance
was set at .05.
Findings of this study can be summarized as follows.
First, the group that participated in expressive activity classes showed no difference in self-esteem after those
classes.
Second, the group that participated in expressive activity classes showed a positively significant difference in
ARE and difference in DRE with a borderline significance after those classes.
Third, concerning the influences of emotion on self-esteem, the lower ARE was, the higher self-esteem was
with a significant difference.