Improving Teenagers' Divergent Thinking With Improvisational Theater.

ABSTRACT: Improvisational theater (improv) is supposed to have an impact on cognitive processes (divergent thinking, flexibility, language, memory, problem solving, and co-construction), academic performance, and everyday life in many ways. However, little research studied on the psychological impact of improv, with some results highlighting a divergent thinking enhancement in children and adults, but not with teenagers, one of the most important age groups to practice improv. Therefore, this study aims to assess divergent thinking for middle school students before and after an 11-weeks session compared to a control group with a sport practice. The Alternative Uses Task (AUT) was used before and after the session for both groups to evaluate divergent thinking. The improv group had better performance

SUBMITTER: Hainselin M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6167459 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature