An Exploratory Study of Dance Teaching Anxiety in Physical Education Teachers

Abstract

In the present study, we explored characteristics of the “dance teaching anxiety,” which is physical education teacher’s anxiety to teach dance. We also explored the effects of their years of teaching experience and their previous experience of dance teaching on such the anxiety. In Study 1, we conducted a questionnaire survey at which physical education teachers described their anxieties in a free form. Results showed that the dance teaching anxiety is composed of five categories, including the anxieties for the teacher’s shortage of dance skills, for the communication with students, and so forth. In Study 2, we created the dance teaching anxiety inventory based on Study 1, which was rated by the other population. We confirmed that the dance teaching anxiety is composed of four factors, which are equivalent with the categories in Study 1. As in Study 1, we found that the teachers perceive a conflict between the student’s wishes toward the dance lecture and their own shortage of the dance skills. Furthermore, results suggest that there be no effects on such the conflict of their years of teaching experience and of their previous dance teaching experience.