Influence of bodily expression in the development of socio-affective skills during secondary education

Abstract

The present work evaluates the effectiveness of a Bodily Expression program on the development of socio-affective skills by 4th grade, Secondary Education students from a school located in an area of social transformation. To demonstrate this effectiveness, a pretest-posttest quasi-experimental investigation was carried out with two weekly sessions for four months to determine that the program made statistically significant differences for students, increasing relationship and socialization patterns. Likewise, there were changes in their perception about their ability to resolve conflicts, in addition to significant differences associated with participants’ age and gender. A discussion group assessed satisfaction or the transference of Socio-Affective Skills to their daily lives. This leads to the conclusion that Bodily Expression is a useful tool to develop the aforementioned skills.