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The effectiveness of psychodrama on social skills and life satisfaction of disadvantaged early-adolescents

Die Wirksamkeit des Psychodramas auf soziale Fähigkeiten und Lebenszufriedenheit benachteiligter Jugendlicher

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In this study, published in the Zeitschrift für Psychodrama und Soziometrie, it was aimed to investigate the effectiveness of psychodrama on social skills and life satisfaction of early adolescents living in socioeconomically disadvantaged conditions. This study is a quasi-experimental design with pre-test, post-test and with a control group. Both the experiment group and the control group consisted of 8 members (5 girls, 3 boys). 10-session psychodrama was conducted with the experiment group under supervision. The Children’s Self-Report Social Skills Scale and Brief Multidimensional Student’s Life Satisfaction Scale were used to testing the aim of the study. Mann-Whitney U test and Wilcoxon signed rankings test were used to analyze the data. In psychodrama sessions, according to the needs of the group, individual, mostly group games, role-playing, doubling, role changing techniques were used. There was a significant difference in favour of the experimental group, between the post-test total scores of the social skills of the experimental and control groups after the experiment. However, there was no significant difference between the post-test total life satisfaction scores after the experiment. Results showed a significant difference between before and after the psychodrama experience group the scores of social skills. Also, the scores of the adolescents participating in the study from the multidimensional life satisfaction scale showed a significant difference between before and after the psychodrama experience group. As a result of the study, it was found that psychodrama, affects social skills and life satisfaction of adolescents.

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In dieser in der Zeitschrift für Psychodrama und Soziometrie veröffentlichten Studie wird untersucht, wie sich Psychodrama auf die sozialen Fähigkeiten und die Lebenszufriedenheit von frühen Jugendlichen unter sozioökonomisch benachteiligten Bedingungen auswirkt. Diese Studie ist ein quasi-experimentelles Design mit Pre-Test, Post-Test und einer Kontrollgruppe. Sowohl die Versuchsgruppe als auch die Kontrollgruppe bestanden aus 8 Mitgliedern (5 Mädchen, 3 Jungen). Ein Psychodrama mit 10 Sitzungen wurde mit der Versuchsgruppe unter Aufsicht durchgeführt. Die Selbstauskunftsskala für soziale Kompetenzen von Kindern und die Skala für die mehrdimensionale Schüler-Lebenszufriedenheit wurden verwendet, um das Ziel der Studie zu testen. Der Mann-Whitney-U-Test und der von Wilcoxon unterzeichnete Einstufungstest wurden zur Analyse der Daten verwendet. In den Psychodrama-Sitzungen wurden, je nach den Bedürfnissen der Gruppe individuelle Techniken, meistens Gruppenspiele, Rollenspiele, Doppeln und Rollentausch angewendet. Es gab einen signifikanten Unterschied zugunsten der Versuchsgruppe zwischen dem Gesamtpunkt der sozialen Fähigkeiten der Versuchsgruppe und der Kontrollgruppe nach dem Test. Es gab jedoch keinen signifikanten Unterschied zwischen den Ergebnissen der Gesamtlebenszufriedenheit nach dem Experiment. Es zeigte sich ein signifikanter Unterschied zwischen vor und nach der Teilnahme an der Psychodramagruppe bezüglich der sozialen Kompetenz. Auch die Ergebnisse der an der Studie teilnehmenden Jugendlichen auf der multidimensionalen Lebenszufriedenheitsskala zeigten einen signifikanten Unterschied zwischen vor und nach der Teilnahme an der Psychodramagruppe. Als Ergebnis der Studie wurde festgestellt, dass Psychodrama die sozialen Fähigkeiten und die Lebenszufriedenheit von Jugendlichen beeinflusst.

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Şahin Yoluk, İ., Togay, A. & Kırlangıç Şimşek, B. The effectiveness of psychodrama on social skills and life satisfaction of disadvantaged early-adolescents. Z Psychodrama Soziom 19 (Suppl 1), 7–19 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11620-020-00559-9

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