THE INVESTIGATION OF TECHNIQUES AND MOODS CHANGE IN POTTERY WORKSHOPS

Experiments of pottery workshops in the hospital environment

Abstract

Pottery workshops and related interventions are widely used in health care for decades. However, the factors that improve participants' moods and emotions are unclear. This study aims to simplify how ceramics activity positively affects participants' emotions through the pottery workshop experiments that employ developed forming techniques. The experiments were conducted in the Fukui Ken Saiseikai Hospital, Japan. Subjects were people in the hospital when the workshops were operated, including inpatients, outpatients, visitors, and medical staff. The methodology compares the works'characteristics to investigate the workshops procedure that improves participants' moods in the hospital environment without a control group. The POMS and the participants' responses questionnaire results show that the constructive characteristic significantly relates to positive mood transitions and workshops interest on every scale. The co-occurrence network of words shows enjoyment in constructive characteristics that are significantly correlated with the Stamping Technique. Finding is the process that supports and guides participants easily to make beautiful works improve their emotions better than the process that open for free expression.