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

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.