Research On The Intervention Of Integrated Sandpaly Therapy On The Intimate Fear And Loneliness Of College Students

With the rapid development of the Internet and We-Media,youngsters are active in a variety of social platforms and make a wide range of friends in recent years.But at the same time,more and more people claim to have socially phobia.Many people’ s communication stays on social software,and when it comes to intimacy they will feel uncomfortable and anxious in real life.Although we live in an era of free love,many youngsters are more inclined to stay single.However,the sociality of human beings determines that individuals cannot exist alone without society.Everyone has the instinct to seek intimacy,and the need for intimacy will accompany us throughout our lives.Even many celibatarian desire good intimacy all the time.However,it is not so easy to build a satisfactory intimate relationship.Emotions of fear and craving will put us in a dilemma.Fear of intimacy refers to an inhibitory emotion which comes from anxiety when communicating significant information with important people.When it hinders the development of intimacy and affects the individual’s confidence in intimacy,the individual will choose to escape and reject,which will seriously affect the establishment of intimacy and the healthy development of body and mind.Therefore,this study selects undergraduate and postgraduate groups aged 18 – 30 to investigate and intervene.It is precisely because they are in an important stage of developing intimacy and avoiding loneliness.In the first study,the quantitative research adopts the overall sampling method to investigate undergraduate and graduate students in Yunnan Province by using the intimate fear scale and loneliness scale which constructed by Descutner and others.A total of 500 questionnaires are distributed,and 439 are effectively recovered,with the recovery rate of 87.8%.Research explore the basic characteristics of intimate fear and loneliness subsequently and analyze the causes of college students ’ intimate fear and the relationship between them.In the second study,based on the survey results of the first study,an integrated sandplay intervention program was designed for college students ’ fear of intimacy and individuals with higher levels of a fear of intimacy and loneliness and willing to cooperate were selected from subjects in the first study.They were divided into the experimental group and the control group,with 6 people in each group.Both groups were tested before and after the intervention.Researcher would track measurement which was carried out two months after the intervention.Through quantitative research and integrated sand table intervention research,the following conclusions are drawn :（1）（1）Among the college students,the fear of intimacy among women is significantly higher than that of men;the fear of intimacy among lower grades,especially freshman and sophomore students,is significantly higher than that of firstand second-year graduate students;the fear of intimacy among college students from rural areas is significantly higher than that in first-and second-tier cities of college students;college students who have never been in a relationship and who have been in a relationship but are now single are significantly more afraid of intimacy than those who are in a relationship;（2）The loneliness of the college students who think their parents are very unhappy in their marriages is significantly higher than that of the groups whose parents are relatively happy and very happy;the loneliness of the groups who think that the parenting style is doting and authoritarian is significantly higher than that of the students whose parenting style is democratic;（3）There is a significant positive correlation between fear of intimacy and loneliness among college students;（4）There are significant differences between the pre-and post-tests of college students’ fear of intimacy and loneliness after the intervention of integrated sandplay therapy,indicating that the integrated sandplay has a good intervention effect on college students’ fear of intimacy and loneliness;（5）According to the two-month follow-up survey results,the total scores of the fear of intimacy and loneliness were significantly different from those in the pre-test,indicating that the intervention effect was stable and sustainable.