Trisha Barton

Trisha Barton was selected her junior year by Spelman's Psychology Department for the Psychology department’s Honor Program. This selection allowed the Psychology Department to support and to fund Trisha' s research. Her thesis title is “Mandala Coloring: Effectiveness in Reducing Test Anxiety, Time Dosages, and Test Anxious Types”. She has completed her thesis and presented it in April of 2016. Information is limited to protect the procedures of the study and potential data collection. Please come back to the website in March to learn the results of the study.
 

Abstract Excerpt:

 

This study replicates certain aspects of the Curry & Kasser study (2005), which examined the effectiveness of an actual mandala coloring compared with using other art expressive techniques and structures. This proposal adds to the mandala literature by researching an African American female population, asks specific questions about mandala coloring, researches mandala usage to reduce test anxiety in undergraduate students,  assesses the relationship between the variables of time coloring and test anxious type, experiments with mandala coloring therapy without using an intervention-based treatment with undergraduate students, and examines an alternative method to treat test anxiety without a health professional.

 

Keywords: Test Anxiety, Art Therapy, Mandalas, Color Therapy, Mindfulness

 

Curry, N., & Kasser, T. (2005). Can coloring mandalas reduce anxiety? Art Therapy: Journal of the American Art Therapy Association, 22 (2), 81-85. Retrieved February 17, 2015.