26isfam144 10.3205/26isfam144 urn:nbn:de:0183-26isfam1440 Meeting Abstract Ostermann Ostermann Thomas T

Department of Psychology and Psychotherapy, Witten/Herdecke University

author Schattschneider Schattschneider Carla C

Department of Psychology and Psychotherapy, Witten/Herdecke University

author German Medical Science GMS Publishing House

Düsseldorf

610 20260612 engl This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License. Dieser Artikel ist ein Open-Access-Artikel und steht unter den Lizenzbedingungen der Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (Namensnennung). M0652 144 International Society for Arts and Medicine The Healing Arts – Forging Alliances of Arts & Medicine Poster Abstracts Berlin 20260618 20260620 26isfam144 TextBackground: An adolescent’s quest for his or her own identity and individual path to adulthood is interspersed with insecurities and worries about the future. Theater work is an established method of exploring individual competences and has shown to have an impact on personality development. Objective: We designed an retrospective online survey, in order to estimate the impact of theater work on former attendees of TheaterTotal, an theater initiative for young adolescents focusing on the effect the of an artistic-aesthetic based approach to theater. Methods: Bochum Change Questionnaire 2000 (BCQ-2000), Self-Report Measure for the Assessment of Emotion Regulation Skills (SEK-27) and a questionnaire created for examining the effects of TheaterTotal (TTQ) were used. Results were compared with norm samples using t-tests. Associations between the scales were calculated using correlation analyses. Results: N=74 participants (mean age: 27.50 ± 5,02 years; 55% women) completed the survey. 78.10% showed enhanced abilities in experiencing and understanding their emotional state. In particular, SEK-27 results show that participants achieved significantly better results (p<0.05) in the subcategories “regulation“, “attention“, “resilience“ and “self-support“ compared to norm sample data. The four subscales of the TTQ “Individuality” “Competence” “Self-confidence“ and ”Empathy” correlated moderately with the subscales of the SEK-27 and the BCQ-2000 (r between 0.235 and 0.372). Discussion: The results of the study show that theater work can have a positive impact on identity formation and personality development. However, due to the retrospective design, results can only be interpreted as causal to a limited extent. 0 0 0 0