The purpose of this study was to find out the relationships among dance experience and empathy, piece role flow of professional dancers. This study was intended to assist dancers failing to perform the full capability due to anxiety. Using a purposive...
The purpose of this study was to find out the relationships among dance experience and empathy, piece role flow of professional dancers. This study was intended to assist dancers failing to perform the full capability due to anxiety. Using a purposive sampling method, subjects of this study were sampled 305 professional dancers (112 males, 193 females; Korean dancer 93, ballet dancers 92, modern dancer 120) from Seoul, Kyungki, Daejeon and Daegu provinces. Data were collected by using the 31 questionnaires of which the validity and reliability were tested. The method of the statistical analysis used in this study were frequency analysis, one-way ANOVA, correlation analysis and regression analysis, through SPSS 12.0 program, The conclusions were drawn as follows. First, there were no significant differences empathy and piece role flow according to personal attributes and degrees of dance experience. But there was significant difference between ages and piece role flow. And there was significant difference between dance career and empathy and piece role flow. Second, task orientation was negative influence on confidence and difficulty of task and positive influence on empathy. Meanwhile, empathy was significant influence on difficulty of task, but there was no significant influence on confidence and self regulation efficacy. Third, task orientation was negative influence on empathy and self orientation was positive influence on piece role flow by people`s expectation.