ISHS Acta Horticulturae 790: VIII International People-Plant Symposium on Exploring Therapeutic Powers of Flowers, Greenery and Nature
EFFECTS OF HORTICULTURAL THERAPY APPLIED BY NATURAL SOUND ON THE DEPRESSION OF HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS |
| Authors: | Y.H. Lee, M.C. Lee, M.L. Ro |
| Keywords: | depression, people/plant interaction, horticultural therapy, natural sound, mental health |
| Abstract:
For teenagers, the burden of entering university, especially in Korea, with the stress concerned with their transitional development step, may influence or be a cause of mental and psychiatric inadaptability. The horticultural experimental group (Exp. G) was divided two groups, with (Exp. G [II]) and without (Exp. G [I]), the application of natural sound. To verify the result of the application of a horticultural therapy (HT) program with or without natural sound, a group of high school students was selected before anything else. The program was made to be carried out at school and home, and was provided for the target in stages 10 times. A personality inventory was used, the Korean Youth Self Checklist (K-YSR) as an investigator instrument, adapted into Korean from the Child Behavior Checklist. With Exp. G [I], ‘withdrawal’ in the post-test on subordinate elements of depression, was shown to have a reduction from 7.80 to 5.50 compared with results on the pre-test without our program, identified as control subjects, who was changed from 7.90 to 8.00. The withdrawal effect on the post- test after participating in the horticultural program (Exp. G [I]) was significant, F (1,18) =5.48, p=0.03 (p<0.05). Differences in means for melancholia on pre- and post- tests, before and after participating in the horticultural program (Exp. G [I]) were also significant. However, results of means for somatic symptom were shown to be insignificant. Similar results were obtained with Exp. G [II] supplied with natural sound, compared with the control group. Withdrawal, on post-test, showed a reduction from 7.20 to 5.10, compared with results for the pre-test without our program, identified as controls. The difference between means on withdrawal observed in the pre- and post- test relating to Exp. G [II] was significant, F (1,18) =6.82, p=0.01 (p<0.05). Specifically, among apparent effects which were shown to be insignificant, was somatic symptom in Exp. G [II], F (1,18) =0.31, p=0.58 (p>0.05). However, for melancholia, on pre- and post- tests before and after participation in the horticultural program (Exp. G [II]) a reduction was shown, from 10.30 to 6.30, and was significant. | |
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