Schoolchildren Social Connections and Wellbeing from Group Dance Intervention

A dataset from a study examining the effects of a 10-week group dance program on 25 schoolchildren from a low-income background. It includes pre-post measurements of social connections at peer and whole-class network levels and wellbeing assessed via the KIDSCREEN-10 questionnaire. The data was authored by Bahar Tunçgenç and uploaded to figshare in June 2026.

Use Cases

• Analyzing changes in reciprocal friendship networks based on social connection data.
• Modeling the relationship between friendship quality and wellbeing scores.
• Evaluating the impact of group activity participation versus individual performance on social outcomes.

Strengths

• Data collection used state-of-the-art motion tracking for dance performance and well-established KIDSCREEN-10 questionnaire for wellbeing.
• Study design includes a pre-post assessment over a 10-week period with a specific cohort of 25 schoolchildren.
• Analysis employs linear mixed effects models and Social Network Analysis for robust statistical evaluation.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• The dataset is very small at 35.8 KB, indicating limited scope.

Provenance

Source

figshare

Collection Method

Data collected via a pre-post study design using questionnaires and motion tracking.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-04 04:30:21; freshness should be verified.