The Effect of Drama Education on the Level of Empathetic Skills of University Students

Abstract

The research was conducted to investigate the effect of drama education on the empathetic skills of university students. A total of 73 undergraduate students, 36 in the experimental group and 37 in the control group, from Gazi University participated in this study. Data were obtained through the use of the Empathetic Skills Scale - Form B developed by Dökmen. The Empathetic Skills Scale – Form B was administered to both groups of students as a pre-test. Then, drama education was provided once a week for 14 weeks for the experimental group. No procedure was applied to the control group during the same period. The same scale was applied again to the experimental and control groups as a post test one week after the drama education was completed. The data were analyzed by using a covariance analysis (ANCOVA). The results showed that drama education had a statistically significant effect on the empathetic skills of students in the experimental group.

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