Department of Philosophy, Sociology, Education and Applied Psychology (FISPPA), University of Padova, Italy.
Emili Sagol Creative Arts Therapies Research Center, University of Haifa, Israel.
Omega (Westport). 2021 Sep;83(4):729-759. doi: 10.1177/0030222819863613. Epub 2019 Jul 31.
This article presents the results of an experience of death education (DE) course with bibliodrama in Italian high schools, which focused on emotions and existential themes. The research analyzed the inability to recognize or describe one's own emotions (alexithymia), fantasy-proneness, and attitudes toward death in two different groups of students: one who took a course on DE (with 113 students) and another who did not participate in it (with 114 students). The use of a mixed method allowed this study to explore the quantitative results that the students indicated in the questionnaire and the qualitative open answers to the final question about how they had profited from this DE course. The results showed that the course had a positive effect, as the DE group significantly decreased alexithymia and negative attitudes toward death, particularly in fear and avoidance of death, making their representation of death less traumatic.
本文介绍了在意大利高中开展的以情感和存在主义主题为重点的戏剧治疗死亡教育（DE）课程的经验成果。该研究分析了两组学生在无法识别或描述自己的情绪（述情障碍）、幻想倾向和对死亡的态度方面的差异：一组学生参加了 DE 课程（113 人），另一组学生没有参加（114 人）。混合方法的使用使本研究能够探究学生在问卷中指出的定量结果，以及他们对最后一个问题的开放式回答，即他们从这个 DE 课程中获益多少。结果表明，该课程产生了积极的影响，因为 DE 组在述情障碍和对死亡的消极态度方面显著下降，特别是在对死亡的恐惧和回避方面，使他们对死亡的表现不再那么创伤。
