Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

• halime neamatolahe ¹
• Ahmad Borjali ²

¹ student

² Heead of school

Abstract

This survey aimed to investigate the effectiveness of creative drama on self-confidence of 5-6 year-old children. This research was quasi-experimental method with pre-test and post-test with two control and experiment group and follow up stage. 30 children which their self-confidence scores in pre-test were lower from point of %75 of distribution of scores were selected as survey sample, and they divided in random to experiment (15) and control group (15). Experiment group participated in the activities of creative drama in 8 sessions for one hour. For data analysis, descriptive statistics and analysis of variance with repeated measure were used. To assess children’s self-confidence, Hesabi’s self-confidence scale (2008) was used. The results showed that creative drama has been effective on children’s self-confidence. Moreover, it was found that intervention effect did not last unit follow‌ up stage.

Keywords

• Self-confidence
• Preschool children
• Creative drama