Influencia de la Danza en el autoconcepto del alumnado de Educación Primaria. Análisis comparativo con otras actividades físicas

Abstract

This research work pretends to analyse the relationship between the self-concept and the dance in the students of Primary Education. We wanted to relate these both questions because of its importance, on the one hand, the self-concept in the identity of the individual and, on the other hand, doing physical activity, specifically, dance, in the young people. To carry out this research, we have evaluated a sample of 74 children between 7 and 12 years from one school (n=45) and two dance schools in Vigo (n=29). We use the Self-Concept Questionnaire (Piers Harris), which values the global self-concept and the dimensions of the self-concept. The purpose of this research is to check if there is some kind of relationship between the self-concept and dance, and to know what dimensions of the self-concept get more score in dance than in other physical activities. We have analysed the results and verified that dance does not improve the global self-concept more than other physical activities; nevertheless, it is remarkable that there is a dimension of self-concept that gets high score in connection with practicing dance, specifically, the happiness-satisfaction, which values the self-esteem of the individual.