Naslov
Does art expression help mood regulation?

Autori
Kresović, Josip ; Nikolić Ivanišević, Matilda

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Poglavlja u knjigama, znanstveni

Knjiga
21st Psychology days in Zadar: Book of Selected Proceedings

Urednik/ci
Tokić, Andrea

Izdavač
Sveučilište u Zadru

Grad
Zadar

Godina
2020

Raspon stranica
83-96

ISBN
978-953-331-282-8

Ključne riječi
art expression, mood, emotion regulation, distraction

Sažetak
Artistic creation can be used to give meaning to experiences or to express emotions thus providing some kind of relief and way to regulate emotions. In the context of using art as mood regulation and emotion expression, it is important to emphasize emotion regulation strategies such as distraction (shifting attention to artistic activities) and venting (expression of negative emotions). The aim of this study was to determine the effect of different art tasks on mood. Participants in this study (N=64) were distributed into four groups. All of them were exposed to negative mood induction, by watching the video clip. After that positive and negative mood levels were measured. Subsequently, the first group produced artwork on what they experienced while watching the video (venting), the second group produced artwork on what makes them happy (positive distraction), the third group drew a stopwatch (neutral distraction) and the fourth group solved a labyrinth task (control). Participants’ mood levels were measured again. Results have shown statistically significant mood improvement in the positive affect within the positive distraction group as oppose to the expressive and non-art i.e. control group. Significant mood improvement in the negative affect was detected within the neutral distraction group in comparison to the control group. Qualitative analysis of art works produced in positive distraction and venting group has shown content differences. All participants in the positive distraction group depicted concrete content, while there was an equal amount of abstract and concrete content types in the venting group artworks. Artworks in the venting groups were evaluated as more mature in developmental level, while artworks produced in positive distraction group were estimated as those with higher line quality and that participant took more effort and paper space for their realization. The results of this research confirm that art expression, in this case visual, affects the emotional state of the individual, which opens the possibility of its use in clinical, but also everyday purposes.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Psihologija

POVEZANOST RADA