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Dance as an art form when applied therapeutically gives several physical and mental health benefits. The aim of this study was to analyse the effect of dance on adults' mental health that is associated with some form of dance. Hence, the aim of the present study is, i) To learn the Self-esteem (SE), Physical Aggression (PA), Verbal Aggression (VA), Anger (A), Hostility (H) and the level of Resilience (R) among the adult dancer, ii) To find out the level of association between Self-esteem, Aggression, and Resilience among the participants, and, iii) To find out a significant predictor of Self-esteem. This study is based on a non-probability sampling design technique with a total of 107 dancers. This study incorporated both qualitative and quantitative analysis methods. The scales used are Rosenberg's Self-esteem Scale by Rosenberg (1965); the Buss-Perry Aggression Questionnaire (BPAQ) (1992); and The Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale (CD-RISC-25) by Kathryn et al. (2003) and also in-depth semi-structured interviews were taken írom 12 participants to fulfill the aim of the study. This study reveals (Table 1) high self-esteem, high physical aggression, hostility, and high resilience power in adult dancers. The study also reveals a significant positive correlation between self-esteem and resilience, physical aggression and anger and a negative significant correlation between resilience and anger, self-esteem and hostility, resilience and verbal aggression, self-esteem and verbal aggression. Physical aggression and Resilience is found to be a significant predictor of self-esteem dancers.
Keywords: aggression orientation, dance, dance movement therapy, self-esteem, resilience, well-being
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