The Live Model-Drawing Experience and Mental Wellbeing: A Phenomenological Study
| Thesis title in Czech: | Zkušenosti s kreslením živých modelů a duševní pohoda: Fenomenologická studie |
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| Thesis title in English: | The Live Model-Drawing Experience and Mental Wellbeing: A Phenomenological Study |
| English key words: | Autoethnography, Reflexive Diary, In-depth interviews, Thematic Analysis, Creativity Based Community |
| Academic year of topic announcement: | 2022/2023 |
| Thesis type: | Bachelor's thesis |
| Thesis language: | angličtina |
| Department: | Department of Psychology and Life Sciences (24-KPVZ) |
| Supervisor: | PhDr. Marek Urban, Ph.D. |
| Author: | hidden - assigned and confirmed by the Study Dept. |
| Date of registration: | 30.11.2022 |
| Date of assignment: | 30.11.2022 |
| Confirmed by Study dept. on: | 30.11.2022 |
| Date of electronic submission: | 05.01.2024 |
| Date of proceeded defence: | 12.02.2024 |
| Course: | Bachelor Thesis Defense (YBAJSZ01) |
| Opponents: | Martina Sebalo Vňuková, M.Sc., Ph.D. |
| Guidelines |
| In-depth phenomenological interviews with consenting members and organizers of the creativity based group will be conducted about their experience: both artistic and community based. The interviews will be triangulated with an autoethnographic analysis of personal experience of author with reflective diaries. Writing reflective diaries entails writing a diary entry (Before, During, After) for each step of the model drawing process. For the interviews, this entails three 90-minutes long interviews: the first contextualizing the person’s experience with art throughout their lives leading up to the model drawing, the second focusing on the model drawing, and the third about their insights on the meaning as well as their thoughts about the future. This model is the only structure for the otherwise unstructured interviews, allowing them to encapsulate the full narrative data of the experience. |
| References |
| Work will be based on these key publications:
Methodology 1. Seidman, I. (2006). Interviewing as qualitative research: A guide for researchers in education and the Social Sciences (3rd ed.). Teachers College Press. 2. Adams, T. E., Jones, S. H., Ellis, C. (2015). Autoethnography: Understanding qualitative research. Oxford University Press. 3. Pensoneau-Conway, S. L., Bolen, D. M., & Adams, T. E. (Eds.). (2017). Doing autoethnography. Sense Publishers. Subject 1. Sagan, O. (2014). Narratives of Art Practice and Mental Wellbeing: Reparation and connection (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203569047 2. Stokes, A. (Ed.). (1967). Reflections on the Nude (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315014173 3. Zebracki, M., & Palmer, J.M. (Eds.). (2018). Public Art Encounters: Art, Space and Identity (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315602837 4. Hagman, G. (2010). The Artist's Mind: A Psychoanalytic Perspective on Creativity, Modern Art and Modern Artists (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203841129 |
| Preliminary scope of work in English |
| The preliminary structure of the thesis
● Introduction: ○ 1. Art and Mental well-being ○ 2. Mental well-being and stressors ○ 3. The Live Model Drawing Process ○ 4. Present study to introduce research GOAL and QUESTIONS ■ To investigate the experiences of people in community/communities formed by art groups in Prague, and their perceived psychological effects/effects on mental health. ■ What is the artistic experience (especially in a live and community setting)? What effects do people believe it to have on their lives and mental well-being? ○ 5. Justification/Risks ■ WHY is this worth being researched: Previous research has analyzed the potential of art in therapy for specific psychological disorders, my research would attempt to understand the more general effect ■ RISKS: I am anonymizing all narrative data, and am remaining in contact with all people interviewed– should they wish to terminate their involvement in the study. All interview subjects are made aware of the research they are participating in as well as of their rights as interview subjects, and all are completely voluntary. ■ LIMITATIONS: I am limited by ethical considerations- peoples choice to terminate participation in this study. Additionally many people will be unwilling to participate in the lengthy interview process and I do not have the funds to incentivize them. Also in terms of analyzing mental well-being, I am limited to my interview subjects perceptions of effects, and cannot study actual effects. ● Methods: ○ 3 step phenomenological interviews ○ Autoethnography ○ Combination analysis of narrative data ● Results & Discussion: Narrative data ○ Turning the narrative data into anonymized stories ○ Crossanalyzing my reflexive data with the anonymized stories ○ Putting this information into the broader context of research on art and mental wellbeing |