The Efficacy of a Drama Therapy-Based Program in Enhancing Self-Perception of Social Skills, and School-Based Behaviors and Achievement

This study aimed to discover whether a drama therapy-based in-school intervention program, ENACT, was successful in promoting prosocial behaviors and decreasing problems behaviors over the course of one school year. Students were administered the 12-Item Grit Scale, Social Skills Improvement System Rating Scale, Morgan Jinks Student Self-Efficacy Scale, and a written version of the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children, Fourth Edition vocabulary subtest at both pre- and post-intervention. Results indicated that students who participated in the program did not evidence any significant changes in their perceptions of themselves, with the exception of their self-perceived talent. This implies that ENACT may not actually be targeting different constructs than those that they propose. Further studies should analyze more changes related to self-perceived talent, such as self-esteem