Investigation the impact of paint therapy on communication skills of shyness female students

This study examines the impact of paint therapy on the communication skills of shyness girl students. The statistical population consisted of students from one of the secondary school of Ardabil City, those finally 84 students was selected as shyness students and were divided into two experimental and control groups. Shyness Questionnaire was used to assess the student’s shyness. After applying the Communication Skills Scale as a pre-test, experimental group received 8 sessions (each session was 50 minutes) of painting therapy over one month. The control group received the usual curriculum. After the intervention, shyness studentsʹ communication skills were measured one more time and they were analysed using analysis of variance. The results showed that paint therapy was affective on students’ communication skills. In other words, where was a significant difference between communication skills of two groups (p < 0.001)