2018 Volume 39 Pages 391-407
The purpose of this research was to propose conducting art workshops that could enable junior high school students to self-disclose and gain deeper insights into their own process. To do this, we focused on students being able to observe the creative process of artists directly, who create based upon content derived from their inner self, using “mitate.” I hypothesized that junior high school students would be better able to express their inner selves by observing the creative processes of such artists. I recruited junior high school students, divided them into two groups, and showed one group the creative processes through a video of an interview with an artist. I examined the differences between the effects on the two groups. The results showed that the group that watched the interview video demonstrated a variety of self- expressions derived from their inner process, while the group that did not watch the video hardly touched upon such expressions.
