Art And Aggression: A Correlational Study
Journal Title: INDIAN JOURNAL OF MENTAL HEALTH - Year 2018, Vol 5, Issue 1
Abstract
Background: This paper explores the various psychological phenomena, especially those of aggression, that, over the ages, have given rise to paintings which are considered works of worldly geniuses today. The paper studies participants’ level of aggressiveness before and after viewing a set of paintings in depth and measures to check whether there is any possible emotive or behavioral change. Methods: With the administration of the Buss-Perry Aggression Questionnaire (pre-test), followed by exposure to paintings inviting in-depth, elaborative and qualitative responses, The Hostility Questionnaire (post-test) was administered to the participants.Results: Scores from both the set of questionnaires were correlated to check whether there lay any emotive or behavioral differences between before and after in-depth exposure to the paintings, and the significance of this difference was found out. Thus, exposure to paintings reflecting great negative emotions is expected to provide a change in participants’ immediate emotive or behavioral responses.Conclusion: This finding is of importance for how art is an effective means of channelizing one’s feelings that leads to a change or shift in one’s current psychological state. Since this has been a locally bound study, experimental evidences would be required to further confirm a causative role of exposure to art and changes in levels of aggression.
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Anangsha Pathak, Jade Carvalho
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