In recent years, the psychological anxiety problem among preschool children has received widespread attention from parents, educators, and researchers. From learning pressure to social interaction with peers, these factors can all lead to the accumulation of psychological stress, resulting in psychological anxiety. Art painting is seen as a way to facilitate individual emotional expression and psychological adjustment, providing children with a stress-free environment where they can freely express their emotions and thoughts without worrying about being judged or misunderstood. The research aims to explore the impact of art painting on the psychological anxiety of contemporary preschool children from the perspective of art psychology.

The study randomly divided 88 preschool children with psychological anxiety into an experimental group and a control group. The control group received routine intervention, while the experimental group received art painting from the perspective of art psychology on the basis of routine intervention. The study used the Preschool Anxiety Scale (PAS) to assess the level of psychological anxiety in preschool children.

After the experiment, the psychological anxiety scores of the experimental group children were significantly lower than before (P<0.05), and meanwhile significantly lower than the psychological anxiety scores of the control group students after the experiment (P<0.05).

From the perspective of art psychology, art painting has a positive and positive effect on alleviating psychological anxiety in preschool children, and can serve as an auxiliary means of intervention.

Research results of the Teaching Reform Research project of Colleges and Universities in Hunan Province, (Hunan Jiaotong (2021) No. 298:HNJG-2021-0200).