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Objective: The aim of this research is to examine the effect of inter-model expressive group art therapy on the final year nursing students' level of overcoming stress. Method: This study was designed as an experimental research with randomization technique in the type of pre-test and final test. It was carried out with sixteen participants (eight participants, eight control group members) who were last grade nursery students in a foundation university's faculty of health sciences in 2015-2016 academic year. The researcher collected the data using a Personal Information Form, Perceived Stress Scale in Nursery Students (PSSNS), Ways of Coping Inventory (WCI), The State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI 1-2) and art pieces produced in sessions, oral expressions of participants, observations of the workshop leader and supervision reports. These scales were analyzed with "Shapiro Wilks test", "Mann Whitney U test", "Wilcoxon Signed-Rank Test", "Spearman Rho Correlation Analysis", "Chi Square Test", "Fisher's Exact Chi-Square Test". Results: When the point average taken by participants from scales were examined, a statistically significant positive relationship (on the level of 72.4%) was found between starting stress sub-dimension points caused by instructors and nurses with social support application sub-dimension points in the experimental group according to the starting evaluation of correlation between sub-dimension points of PSSNS and those of WCI (r: 0.724; p<0.05). When the correlation between WCI sub-dimension points and STAI 1-2 sub-dimension points was evaluated, a statistically significant and positive relationship on a level of 71.2% between social support application beginning sub-dimension points and trait anxiety sub-dimension points (r:0.712; p<0. 05); and another statistically significant and positive relationship on a level of 70.4% between optimistic approach beginning sub-dimension points and state anxiety sub-dimension points were found in the experimental group (r:0.704; p<0.05). Conclusion: This study is thought to have participants about defining their stressors, realizing, expressing and explaining their own feelings; empowered in-group communication; and supported creative and critical thinking giving a new perspective to participants. On the basis of this result, forming large sample groups and long-term studies must be supported.

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