According to my topic of
colour as therapy, a proper literature or a statement should be referred or
studied. My understanding with previous search, it conclude that some colours
play and generate different feeling. In addition, it depends on the colour that
they witness.
Now, for the study that I
carrying on, how could colour can be used for therapy? And how can colour
change the mind perception (stress/depress/relaxed)?
…..People
tend to pick different colors to describe different moods, according to
research published Feb. 8, 2010 in the journal BMC Medical Research
Methodology….
….The colors we use to describe
emotions may be more useful than you think, according to new research.
The study
found that people with depression or anxiety were more likely to associate
their mood with the color grey, while happier people
preferred yellow. The results, which are detailed today in the journal BMC
Medical Research Methodology, could help doctors gauge the moods of children
and other patients who have trouble communicating verbally.
"This
is a way of measuring anxiety and depression which gets away from the use of
language," study co-author and gastroenterologist Peter Whorwell of
University Hospital South Manchester told Live Science. "What is very
interesting is that this might actually be a better way of capturing the
patient's mood than questions."
Colors
are often used as metaphors for moods, but no one had systematically researched
color associations, Whorwell said. To investigate, he and his colleagues picked
eight colors — red, orange, green, purple, blue, yellow, pink and brown — and
split each into four shades. They then added white, black and four shades of
gray for a total of 38 options. After meeting with focus groups, the
researchers decided to display the colors in the form of a wheel.
Next,
they recruited 105 healthy adults, 110 anxious adults and 108 depressed adults
and mailed them printouts of the color wheel. Each person was asked to pick
their favorite color, as well as the color they were most "drawn to."
Finally, they were asked to pick a color that described their day-to-day mood
over the last several months. Another group of 204 healthy volunteers
classified each color as positive, negative or neutral.
Whether
depressed, anxious or healthy, people liked blue and yellow. Blue 28 on the
color wheel was the most popular favorite color among healthy people, while
Blue 27 (which is a little darker than 28) got first place among people with
anxiety and depression. Meanwhile, Yellow 14 was picked as the color most
likely to catch the eye.
But when
it came to mood, the groups diverged. Only 39 percent of healthy people associated
their mood with a color at all. Of those who did, Yellow 14 was the most
popular choice, with about 20 percent of the votes. Meanwhile, about 30 percent
of people with anxiety picked a shade of grey, as did more than half of depressed
volunteers. In comparison, healthy volunteers described their mood with a shade
of grey only about 10 percent of the time.
The
researchers also found that when assigning a mood to colors, saturation
matters.
"A
light blue is not associated with a poor mood, but a dark blue is,"
Whorwell said. "The shade of color is more important than the color
itself."…..
(Stephanie
Pappas about Peter Whorwell statement/study)
Reflection:
From this study of Peter Whorwell, I understand
that every people have their different passionate colour of their own mind. The
colours changes mood and the depression state of a person because the
proportion of their mind accepting the colour. Other than that, it is a natural
phenomenon of our brains to reflect upon different colours. Moreover, this
statement shows that how state of mind are measured with colours and the
different mood.
reference:
Stephanie P, 2010. Different colors describe happiness vs. depression. [Online]
Available on: http://www.livescience.com/6084-colors-describe-happiness-depression.html [Accessed on: 16 March 2016]
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