Sensory-mediated “arts on prescription”: emotional arousal mechanisms through Portuguese Azulejo craft workshop
Jing Xu, Qianyao Wang, Aijia Zhang, Xuexing Luo, Guanghui Huang

TL;DR
This study explores how participating in a Portuguese Azulejo craft workshop can improve emotional well-being through sensory engagement and cultural connection.
Contribution
The study introduces a cognition-emotion-behavior model for cross-cultural art interventions and links MBTI personality types to color-emotion associations in craft.
Findings
Participants showed significant improvements in cultural cognition, subjective well-being, and cultural preservation intent.
Emotional responses varied across creative stages, with initial anticipation and late-stage excitement linked to outcome expectations.
MBTI personality types influenced color use and emotional expression during the craft experience.
Abstract
This study investigates the therapeutic potential of the Portuguese Azulejo craft within an Arts on Prescription framework, focusing on how sensory engagement across creative stages supports the regulation of a positive emotional state, suggesting a potential U-shaped trajectory (with calming early phases and a spike of excitement in the final phase) in Portuguese Azulejo workshops. Furthermore, the study suggests a preliminary empirical relationship between MBTI personality types and color-emotion associations. Results demonstrate that multisensory engagement enhances positive affect, well-being, cultural cognition, and culture preservation intent, establishing a cognition-emotion-behaviour model for cross-cultural art interventions. Twenty-five participants (Mean age = 34.25) took part in a cross-cultural summer workshop. Emotional states were measured pre- and post-workshop using…
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Taxonomy
TopicsColor perception and design · Creativity in Education and Neuroscience · Olfactory and Sensory Function Studies
