The goal of is this study is to examine effects of
folk dances as a spare time activity on depression levels of students. Pre test
– final test model is applied during the study and Beck Depression Scale (11)
in terms of Depression Scale of Children (DSC) as the data collection device.
The study is applied on totally 500 students continuing to study in downtown of
Konya, 250 as test subject and 250 as control subject. Folkloric dance
exercised with the experimental group during 10 weeks and beck depression scale
was applied on both test and control groups before and after the study. For
determination of differences, One Way Anova test was used while Tukey test was
used for the differences between groups after tests of homogeneity of variances
and distribution of data and the tolerance level was measured as 0.05. In terms
of evidences obtained from the study it was observed that there was a decrease
at depression levels of study group and an increase at control group. A
meaningful difference was observed between first and last measurement of study
and control groups in terms of statistical information (P<0.05). A decrease
at depression levels of 9-10 age students (P<0.05) while there was not a
meaningful difference at depression levels of students in terms of gender and number
of brothers/sisters (P>0.05). A meaningful decrease at depression levels of
individuals who have mothers working at public or private sector was observed
(P<0.05). In terms of comparison about the jobs of fathers, a decrease was
observed at students who have fathers working at public or private sector while
there was an increase at depression level of students who have self-employed
fathers. While a meaningful decrease was observed at students who have graduate
or post-graduate degree parents (P<0.05), there was an increase at students
who have primary school graduated parents. A meaningful decrease in terms of
statistics observed at students living at a family which has a high average of
income (P<0.05). Consequently, it was observed that the exercises of
folkloric dance have positive effects on depression levels, during the study
held in order to examine effects of folkloric dance on depression levels of
7-11 age students.
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Publication Date | April 30, 2017 |
Published in Issue | Year 2017 Volume: 19 Issue: 1 |
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