This study was conducted to investigate the effect of a role-play activities on the ability of self-determination of students with mental retardation.
The specific goals to accomplish this purpose are as follows;
First, to identify the effect of rol...
This study was conducted to investigate the effect of a role-play activities on the ability of self-determination of students with mental retardation.
The specific goals to accomplish this purpose are as follows;
First, to identify the effect of role-play activities on the autonomy of students with mental retardation.
Second, to identify the effect of role-play activities on the psychological empowerment of students with mental retardation.
Third, to identify the effect of role-play activities on the self-realization of students with mental retardation.
The subject of this study was selected 40 students with mental retardation who are enrolled in the level of middle and high school in K special school for the mentally retarded, Gyengsangbuk-Do. An experimental and a comparative group included 20 participants (each 10 boys 10girls).
Participants in experimental group adapted to the program on role-play activities for 80 minutes three session per week over a period of 14 weeks. ‘Self-determination Scale' was employed as the instrument of the study to measure their autonomy, psychological empowerment and self-realization. The study was conducted using a pretest-posttest design with comparative group. Analyses of two-way ANOVA was used to identify significant differences in group and gender, the data were processed by SPSS 11.5 statistics program.
The conclusions of this study were as follows;
First, the role-play activities had an effect on increasing the autonomy in the ability of self-determination of students with mental retardation.
Second, the role-play activities had an effect on increasing the psychological empowerment in the ability of self-determination of students with mental retardation.
Third, the role-play activities had an effect on increasing the improvement in self-realization in the ability of self-determination of students with mental retardation.
Therefore, it may be concluded that the role-play activities is effective to improve the ability of self-determination of students with mental retardation.