ART THERAPY DRAWING ON EMOTIONAL CHANGES AND STRESS OF THE ELDERLY IN DELI SERDANG

Abstract

The elderly are an age group that is vulnerable to emotional changes due to the aging process. Such changes cause problems that affect mental or psychological health. The purpose of this study was to know the description of art therapy on emotional changes and stress in the elderly. The method used in this study is quantitative description. The elderly were given treatment and then filled out questionnaires observing changes in emotions and stress. This is done when performing drawing interventions. The results of Kendall's correlation coefficient analysis test of 1 which means the correlation between perfect variables and has a significance value of 0.0 < 0.112 which means that between emotional variables and stress have a significant relationship. From these results, it can be concluded that this study has a significant, strong and unidirectional relationship. This is due to hormonal decreases in the elderly in the female sex. This research is expected to help the next researcher who will conduct research related to this topic.