DansArt Health

Integrated dance workshops designed for the women Mental Health users of the Centers Day Hospital. The organizers propose dance and movement workshops as a regular physical activity with the added value that dance expresses emotions and communicates with others through movement, so it will bring mental well-being that will contribute to improving the quality of life of these women by offering them this safe space for communication and creativity.
The aim of this project is to offer a creative space within the center's therapeutic programs, which allows users to achieve a certain degree of autonomy and stability, through supervised and measured dynamics, rehabilitating personal capacities and social skills to regain self-esteem. The organizers will encourage group participation and facilitate interpersonal relationships to get out of isolation and reinsert into the community through a community artistic practice such as dance.
Parameters to measure:
Self esteem: to measure self-esteem, the Spanish version validated by Vázquez, Jiménez and Vázquez (2004) of the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale (1965) will be used. This scale is composed of 10 items related to feelings of self-esteem and personal value in a balanced way, that is, it consists of 5 positive and 5 negative items. (Example: "I really feel worthless sometimes" or "I think I have a lot to be proud of.") Responses are scored on a Likert-type scale ranging from 1 (strongly disagree) to 4 (strongly agree).
Emotional intelligence. Regarding emotional intelligence, we will use the 360º assessment (Extrema and Fernández Berrocal, 2003) using only the self-perception questionnaire. As Bisquerra, Martínez, Obiols and Pérez (2006) point out, this allows the self-perception of each user to be discovered in relation to different emotional skills, making each one aware of their own progress and reflecting on those emotional skills they need to continue developing. The questionnaire consists of 14 items that assess emotional competences by assigning values ​​from 0 to 10. Some examples of items that can be found are "I know how to express my emotions appropriately" or "I control my impulsivity".
Satisfaction with life: to measure satisfaction with life, we will use the Spanish version (Atienza, Pons, Balaguer, and García-Merita, 2000) of the Life Satisfaction Scale by Diener, Emmons, Larsen, and Griffin (1985), which measures satisfaction with life as a cognitive judgment process, through 5 items. The answers will be scored on a Likert-type scale ranging from 1 (strongly disagree) to 4 (strongly agree). An example item is "In most ways my life is the way I want it to be."