재즈댄스가 교정시설 청소년의 자아존중감에 미치는 효과

Abstract

The present study aims to investigate if a jazz dance program may bring about new changes to self-esteem of the youth admitted in correctional institutions. For this aim, a jazz dance program was applied to 28 subjects selected from C Juvenile Correctional Institution which was designated as recipient of the aid for social, cultural and art education in the special correctional area as a part of the joint political projects for cultural and art education 2008 by the Ministry of Culture & Tourism as well as the Ministry of Education & Human Resources Development. Fourteen each of the subjects were assigned to the control as well as to the experimental groups and were given 30 sessions of the program (once or twice a week) from April 10 to September 25. A pre-test of self-esteem was performed (experimental group and control group) prior to the onset of the program, and a post-test was executed by using the same questionnaires. After the program, an analysis was conducted to find out any changes in private and public self-consciousness and self-esteem of the subjects in the form of social tension. To verify changes in self-esteem of the students accommodated in the correctional institutions, an analysis of questionnaires was carried out by means of SPSS 12.0, Korean version, before and after the class. Correspondence and chi-square t-tests were performed to determine the pre- and post-test outcomes of the experimental and control groups, respectively. From the study, following results became known: First, before application of the jazz dance program to the inmates of the correctional house for juveniles, there was no significant difference between the experimental and control groups in terms of private and public self-consciousness as well as social tension; Second, after the jazz dance program was offered to the inmates of the correctional house for juveniles, factors of private and public self-consciousness were found to increase higher in the experimental group than in the control group while the sense of social tension turned out to become lower in the experimental group than in the control group; and Third, as for changes in the attitudes of the inmates before and after application of the jazz dance program, private and public self-consciousness of the inmates was shown to grow more after application of the program whereas, however, factors of their social tension became low after application of the program. From the findings above, it could be concluded that a jazz dance program might have positive impacts on the senses of self-esteem (private and public self-consciousness and social tension) when it is applied to the inmates of correctional institutions for juveniles.