ERIC Number: EJ1141560
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2017
Pages: 11
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ISSN: EISSN-1306-3065
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Effects of the Drama Course on Psychological Well-Being of Physical Education Teacher Candidates
Gül, Özgür; Çaglayan, Hakan Salim
International Journal of Environmental and Science Education, v12 n3 p559-569 2017
This study was carried out to determine whether the drama course has any effect on the psychological well-being levels of the 4th grade students who study at the Department of Physical Education and Sports Teaching at the Faculty of Sport Sciences. The research group consists of 39 students studying at the 4th grade in the Department of Physical Education and Sports Teaching at the Faculty of Sport Sciences of Selçuk University in the fall semester of 2016-2017 academic year. The study was carried out in accordance with the pre-test-post-test model and the scale was applied to students at the beginning of the academic year and at the end of the semester after 14 weeks drama lesson. Drama lessons were taught for 4 hours per week according to the curriculum. "Psychological Well-Being Scale" developed by Ryff (1989) and adapted to Turkish by Cenkseven (2004) was used as the data collection tool in the research. In the analysis of the data, t-test (Paired-Samples t test) was used for the related measures from the parametric tests. Significance level in the study was taken as 0.05. As a result of the research; it was found that there was a difference in favor of post-test scores between pre-test and post-test averages of all subscales of the candidate teachers' psychological well-being scale (positive relationships with others, autonomy, environmental dominance, individual development, life purpose and self-acceptance) but this difference was not significant at the 0.05 level.
Descriptors: Drama, Well Being, Mental Health, Physical Education Teachers, Pretests Posttests, Teaching Methods, Foreign Countries, Psychological Patterns, Scores, Interpersonal Relationship, Professional Autonomy, Environmental Influences, Individual Development, Self Concept, Surveys, Preservice Teachers
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Turkey
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