The purpose of this study was to find out the effect of dance education on the emotional development of adolescents.
The subjects of this study was students involved in two girls' high school. After doing the question research of the total number of ...
The purpose of this study was to find out the effect of dance education on the emotional development of adolescents.
The subjects of this study was students involved in two girls' high school. After doing the question research of the total number of 467 third year girl's high school students in YeoSoo city consisting of 156 students taking the various dance courses and of 311 students not taking them.
The collected data was calculated the descriptive statistics(M and SD) as to the index grade of each emotional factors using SPSS/PC+ and made the covariance analysis.
The results are as fellows in sum.
First, there wag difference in self-awareness, self-control, patience, optimism, general emotion but there was no difference in sympathy and softness as a function of the experience dance and non-experience dance.
Second, there was difference in patience as a function of the standard of dance techniques but there was no difference in sympathy, self-awareness, self-control, softness and optimism.
Third, there was no difference in sympathy, self-awareness, self-control, patience, softness and optimism as a function of the consciousness of the dance experience.
Fourth, there was difference in general emotion as a function of the items of dance but there was no difference in sympathy, self-awareness, self-control, patience, softness and optimism.
To synthesize these above results, dance education has a great influence on the emotion in the growth period and the adolescent period and it can be assumed that when the voluntarily and creative expression activity is done successfully in the emotional art subject among many learning activities, the social needs and the desire for achievement can be satisfied properly and accordingly the positive image of human being along with the emotional security is formed.
In conclusion, the dance experience in the adolescent period is said to be very important so as to express the plentiful emotion with each individual and develop the emotion which can be regulated on its own.