The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between dance major university students` dance activity-oriented passion and affect. In other words, the investigators looked into the influence of harmonious passion and obsessive passion, a d...
The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between dance major university students` dance activity-oriented passion and affect. In other words, the investigators looked into the influence of harmonious passion and obsessive passion, a dualistic approach suggested by Vallerand et al. (2003), upon positive affect and negative affect. For this, a questionnaire survey of 181 dance major university students (male=22 and female=159) was carried out to find out dance passion and affect. Collected data were analyzed with such analytic methods as descriptive analysis, reliability test, exploratory factor analysis, confirmatory factor analysis, correlation analysis and partial correlation analysis. And the dance model was tested with SEM. Study findings are as follows: Correlation analysis shows that passion has positive relationship with positive affect and negative relationship with negative affect. Partial correlation analysis of which control variable is every passion shows that all the passions have positive relationship with positive affect, whereas there is no significant relationship with negative affect. In particular, positive affect has bigger relationship with obsessive passion than harmonious passion, thus presenting different modality from most of preceding studies. The result of SEM-based model test shows that the passion model seems to be valid. All the passions are predictors of positive affect and have no influence upon negative affect.