Dynamics of Students’ Psychological and Emotional States in Dance Movement Training

Abstract

The article presents a study of the dynamics of students' psychological and emotional state in the implementation of the author's program of dance movement training. The effectiveness of the training was monitored by evaluating the types of the participants' psychological problems and their emotional and functional state. The study involved 96 students of Nizhny Novgorod universities aged from 18 to 25. We used: the author's questionnaire for subjective evaluation of the training participants' psychological problems; Cattell's questionnaire; the method of computer campimetry to assess the functional state of the body by the function of color differentiation. The technology used for measuring differential thresholds based on the coordinates of color models in a computer environment was the HandTracker (Polevaya) campimetry test for virtual environment. The system of dance movement training included methods of body-oriented psychotherapy, vegetotherapy, dance movement therapy, including contact improvisation. The structure of the class included: warm-up (aerobic and anaerobic exercise, muscle stretching exercises);

Beneficios De La Danza en El Contexto Educativo: Una Revisión Sistemática Entre Los Años 2012-2021

“…Muchos estudios revelan que los estudiantes universitarios presentan con mucha frecuencia desórdenes mentales que los afectan emocional, física, cognitiva y académicamente (López-Rodríguez et al, 2017). Los resultados de los distintos estudios demuestran que la danza puede mejorar la salud física, mental y emocional de los estudiantes universitarios (Donath et al, 2014;Gutko et al, 2019;López-Rodríguez et al, 2017;Wang et al, 2019;Zheng & Ji, 2021), lo que puede traducirse en una mejora en el bienestar general de la persona.…”