This study was designed to identify the relations between physical self-concept and sociality of elementary school students according to their after-school dance activity participation, and targeted on the elementary school students in Kyunggi provinc...
This study was designed to identify the relations between physical self-concept and sociality of elementary school students according to their after-school dance activity participation, and targeted on the elementary school students in Kyunggi province for a survey.
Thus, as a result of analyzing the responses based on a statistical test, the conclusion was as follows.
First, higher physical self-concept reflected student's higher frequency and participation period of dance activity.
Second, the physical self-concept was higher in the students who participated in a pure dance, ballet than those who participated in jazz or pop-dance.
Third, the sociality was higher in the dance activity participants than non-participants.
Fourth, the physical self-concept had a positive effect on the development of sociality.
Summing up the above findings, the dance activity participation of elementary school students had a positive effect on the physical self-concept, and accordingly worked as an important factor to bring out higher perception of their sociality.
Thus, the whole-person education is required to establish a leadership, reliability, sociality and cooperativity by actively encouraging children to have a dance activity which can improve their talents for a desirable concept of self and sex, sociality, under the circumstances that the development of physical self-concept and sociality are having a negative influence by the lack of home sociality education due to knowledge-centered, academic achievement-based education, low fertility and nuclear family system. Also, various after-school dance activity programs are required to elementary school students for the whole-person education.