The Goldsmiths Dance Sophistication Index (Gold-DSI): A psychometric tool to assess individual differences in dance experience
| Autor: | Daniel Müllensiefen, Guido Orgs, Dawn Rose, Peter Lovatt |
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| Rok vydání: | 2022 |
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Visual Arts and Performing Arts
Dance media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences Applied psychology Musical Test validity Body awareness The arts 050105 experimental psychology Grounded theory Continuous assessment 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Developmental and Educational Psychology 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Psychology Sophistication 030217 neurology & neurosurgery Applied Psychology media_common |
| Zdroj: | Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts. 16:733-745 |
| ISSN: | 1931-390X 1931-3896 |
| Popis: | Dance has become an important topic for research in empirical aesthetics, social and motor cognition, and as an intervention for neurodegenerative and neurodevelopmental disorders. Despite the growing scientific interest in dance, no standardised psychometric instrument exists to assess people’s dance experience. Here, we introduce the Goldsmiths Dance Sophistication Index (Gold-DSI), a 26-item questionnaire to measure individual differences in participatory and observational dance experience on a continuous scale. The Gold-DSI was developed in three stages: In the first stage a set of 76 items was generated by adapting questions from the Goldsmiths Musical Sophistication Index (Müllensiefen et al., 2014), and as part of a stakeholder workshop using a grounded theory approach. The second stage focused on item reduction. Using a large-scale online survey (N=424) , hierarchical factor analysis was used to fit a model comprising of one general and six secondary factors (28 items in total). In stage three, six new items were added to specifically capture individual differences in dance observation. We then collected data from two samples for final model estimation (N=127) and evaluation (N=190). The final version of the Gold-DSI comprises 26 items; 20 items relate to one general factor that captures experience in dance participation. This includes four secondary factors: Body Awareness, Social Dancing, Urge to Dance, and Dance Training. A further six items separately measure experience in dance observation. In sum, the Gold-DSI provides a brief, standardised and continuous assessment of doing, watching and knowing about dance. |
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