Yu Haiyan, Teo Eng Wah, Tan Chai Chen, Chang Jindong, Liu Shenghui
Faculty of Sports and Exercise Science, Universiti Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
School of Physical Education, Fuyang Normal University, Fuyang, China.
Front Psychol. 2025 Aug 26;16:1644253. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1644253. eCollection 2025.
Dance is a physically and psychologically demanding activity that can significantly affect dancers' overall well-being. While interest in this area has increased, no comprehensive systematic review has synthesized existing findings across diverse populations and contexts. This study addresses this gap by reviewing how dancers' well-being has been conceptualized and measured, identifying key associated factors, and evaluating available interventions.
Following PRISMA guidelines, 18 peer-reviewed studies published from 1984 to November 2024 were included, sourced from Web of Science, Scopus, PubMed, SPORTDiscus, and manual searches. The Mixed Methods Appraisal Tool (MMAT) was used to assess the risk of bias.
The synthesized evidence reveals a growing trend toward adopting eudaimonic and multidimensional frameworks in the conceptualization of dancer well-being, with the Positive and Negative Affect Schedule being the most frequently employed instrument to measure dancers' well-being. Dancers' well-being is significantly associated with multiple factors, including demographic factors, motivational climate, psychological factors, as well as organizational stressors and resources. Notably, only one study employed a randomized controlled trial design.
This review also identifies several important areas for future research, including the adoption of longitudinal and mixed-methods designs, the development of validated and dancer-specific measures of well-being, and the design of interventions applicable to dancers across a broader range of dance genres, professional levels, and underrepresented groups, such as male dancers and individuals from diverse cultural contexts. These findings provide an integrated understanding of the key psychological factors, theoretical models, and methodological approaches shaping dancers' well-being, offering a foundation for future targeted interventions and research.
CRD420251003173, https://www.crd.york.ac.uk/PROSPERO/view/CRD420251003173.
舞蹈是一项对身体和心理要求很高的活动，会对舞者的整体幸福感产生重大影响。尽管对这一领域的兴趣有所增加，但尚未有全面的系统评价综合不同人群和背景下的现有研究结果。本研究通过回顾舞者幸福感的概念化和测量方式、确定关键相关因素以及评估可用干预措施来填补这一空白。
遵循PRISMA指南，纳入了1984年至2024年11月发表的18项同行评审研究，这些研究来自科学网、Scopus、PubMed、SPORTDiscus以及手动检索。使用混合方法评估工具（MMAT）评估偏倚风险。
综合证据显示，在舞者幸福感的概念化方面，采用幸福主义和多维度框架的趋势日益明显，正负情感量表是测量舞者幸福感最常用的工具。舞者的幸福感与多个因素显著相关，包括人口统计学因素、动机氛围、心理因素以及组织压力源和资源。值得注意的是，只有一项研究采用了随机对照试验设计。
本综述还确定了几个未来研究的重要领域，包括采用纵向和混合方法设计、开发经过验证的针对舞者的幸福感测量方法，以及设计适用于更广泛舞蹈类型、专业水平和代表性不足群体（如男性舞者和来自不同文化背景的个人）的舞者的干预措施。这些发现提供了对影响舞者幸福感的关键心理因素、理论模型和方法学方法的综合理解，为未来有针对性的干预措施和研究奠定了基础。
CRD420251003173，https://www.crd.york.ac.uk/PROSPERO/view/CRD420251003173 。
