This study investigated the influence of liberal dance class participation motive of university student on life stress, hopelessness and depression, to have a new understanding of educational value and importance of school dance class in educational s...
This study investigated the influence of liberal dance class participation motive of university student on life stress, hopelessness and depression, to have a new understanding of educational value and importance of school dance class in educational system, and to gain basic material for revitalization of dance education.
For the purpose of this study, 300 of 1st~4th grade liberal dance class participating students and, as the comparative group, 300 of non-experienced students, whole 600 students were sampled with purposive sampling from 12 universities, have liberal dance class, selected each 3 from whole 4 districts ; Seoul, Gyeonggi, Chungcheong, Gangwon. Finally, 589 materials were analyzed from collected, excepting inadmissible samples with more than 5 questions without answer. The research tool was questionnaire, and 93 questions with verified reliability and validity in pretest were used. Processing method were t-test, one-way ANOVA, Multiple regression analysis, Covariance Structure Analysis, and the results as below were drawn.
First, according to the personal character, there were significant differences in life stress, hopelessness and depression.
According to sex, depression showed significant difference. In other words, male student showed more depressed feeling the lower variable of depression than female one. On the other hand, there was no difference in other lower variables except life stress, hopelessness and depressed feeling.
According to the school grade, 2nd and 4th grade student showed higher life stress, and the lower grade showed higher negative hopelessness than the lower, and 1st grade showed highest physical worry and nervousness.
According to the school record, under 3.0 students showed higher life stress, and under 2.0 showed highest positive hope. The high school recorded students showed higher physical worry, nervousness and depressed feeling.
According to the economic level, the upper class showed highest life stress, and, reversely, the lower and lower middle class showed highest depressed feeling.
Second, According to the characteristic of liberal dance experience, there were significant differences in life stress, hopelessness and depression.
According to the existence of liberal dance experience, non-participating students showed higher life stress and negative hopelessness, and reversely, parting ones showed higher positive hope. And non-participating students showed higher depression variable than participating ones.
According to the liberal dance class participating type, dance sport participating students showed higher life stress, and, modern, korean and jazz dance showed higher negative hopelessness in turns. On the other hand, there was no significant differences in depression variable.
Third, according to the liberal dance class participating type, there were differences in participation motive. In other words, the students who participating in the other class like broadcasting dance, hiphop and yoga showed higher participation motives like health, feeling and interest than who participating in dance class like korean, ballet, modern, jazz dance and dance sport.
Forth, liberal dance class participation motive had significant influence on life stress. In other words, health had significant influence on teaching stress, and mood change on sibling‧friend stress, teaching, study and parent stress.
Fifth, liberal dance class participation motive had significant influence on hopelessness. In other words, health motive had significant influences on negative hopelessness and positive hope.
Sixth, liberal dance class participation motive had significant influence on depression. Health motive had significant influences on physical worry, nervousness and depressed feeling, and mood change motive had on physical worry and nervousness.
Seventh, there were causal relations in university student`s liberal dance class participation motive and life stress, hopelessness and depression. In other words, liberal dance class participation motive not only had direct influence on depression, and also had indirect influence on depression through life stress and hopelessness.
From that result, it is judged that university student`s liberal dance class participation has positive influence on life stress, hopelessness and depression. So, for the students` sound mental health, the active method to induce and expand the students`s participation, which can motivate students` participation, should be drawn.