Effects of Psychodrama Practice on University Students’ Subjective Well-Being and Hopelessness

Abstract

To examine the effects of psychodrama practice on university students’ subjective well-being and hopelessness scores has been aimed in this study. For each group 15 students that have both low subjective well-being and high hopelessness scores have been accepted in experiment, control and placebo groups. Experiment control, placebo and true experimental design with pre-test, last-test and follow up test have been used in the study. Psychodrama group application for experiment group has lasted for 12 weeks, 90-120 minutes once a week. Kruskal Wallis, Mann-Whitney U and Wilcoxon Signed Ranks Tests have been used in the data analysis. Findings have illustrated that the students’ subjective well-being scores in the experiment group have increased significantly and their hopelessness scores have decreased significantly when compared to the control and placebo groups. It has been observed in the follow up test that decreasing in subjective well-being scores has not lasted for ten weeks and decreasing in hopelessness scores has lasted for ten weeks.