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

Table 2

Comparison of self-acceptance scores of different groups of college students before and after painting therapy group counseling (x ± s).

Survey time	Group	Number of members	Statistics	Self-acceptance factor	Self-evaluation factor	Total self-acceptance score
Before experiment	Experimental group	9		18.11 ± 3.69	19.22 ± 2.17	37.33 ± 4.39
	Control group	9		16.89 ± 2.71	18.22 ± 2.49	35.11 ± 2.15
			t value	0.80	0.91	1.37
			value	＞.05	＞.05	＞.05
After experiment	Experimental group	9		20.67 ± 4.12	20.11 ± 3.59	40.78 ± 6.91
	Control group	9		16.78 ± 2.77	18.00 ± 2.78	34.78 ± 2.05
			t value	3.19	3.71	3.66
			value	＜.01	＜.01	＜.05
			d value	1.13	0.66	1.34
Two months after the experiment	Experimental group	9		22.11 ± 2.85	21.56 ± 2.65	43.67 ± 4.64
	Control group	9		16.75 ± 2.75	18.09 ± 2.58	34.84 ± 2.06
			t value	4.06	2.86	4.33
			value	＜.01	＜.05	＜.01
			d value	1.91	1.33	2.64