Effect of body music on the negative thoughts of 13 -14-year old students

The objective of the present study is to determine the degree of the effect of the body music activity on mitigating the negative thoughts of "disasterizing, individualizing, selective perception" as. For this, control group pattern paired by preliminary test-final test was used. The present study was conducted in the Üzümlü Secondary School in the second educational region of the Erzincan province in the 2017-2018 educational year. The experimental and the control groups of the study includes 32 students, 13-14 years old, of the second stage eight grade of elementary education. Personal information form, the Scale to Assess the Negative Thoughts in Children and expert opinion form were used to collect data. In the experimental group, body music activities were implemented for 8 weeks, being 40 minutes one day every week, as non-course activity while no implementation was conducted in the control group. To measure the effect of the training given by this implementation, the preliminary test and the final test scores of the students in the experimental group and the control group were statistically compared. The SPSS 19 package program was used to analyse the data obtained. To evaluate the differences between the two groups, Student's t test was used when the parametric test preconditions were satisfied; when the parametric test preconditions were not satisfied, Mann Whitney-U test was used. Similarly, in the analysis of dependent variables, paired samples t test and the Wilcoxon T test was used depending on the distribution. As a result of the study, it is concluded that the body music activities implemented is an effective method in mitigating the negative thoughts of the students of the 13-14 age group. Consequently, it is envisaged that the body music activities play an effective role in mitigating the problems experienced particularly in adolescence. It is maintained that the body music activities is a method that can be used in music education and in non-course activities.