The purpose of the study was to determine whether the tribal dance style has any influence on the dancer's self-concept. We also wanted to explore whether there are differences in self-concept among dancers who have just begun with tribal dance courses and a group of dancers who dance the tribal dance style for several years. In the theoretical part, we introduced the notion of self-concept and theoretically defined the American tribal style® and the tribal fusion dance style. The study included 30 dancers aged 18-40 years under the leadership of Manca Pavli, who is a pioneer of tribal dance style in Slovenia. We distributed 60 questionnaires of the Tennessee self-concept scale, covering various aspects of self-concept, based on the assumption that self-concept is a multi-dimensional construct. We compared the groups with one another with the t-test and found out that the dancers of the group which dance tribal style for several years have a statistically significantly higher self-concept than the dance group of beginners in the first measurement. Dance group of beginners have a statistically significantly higher self-concept in the measurement after five months of dancing and are very close to the group of dancers that have been dancing tribal style for several years. The results show that tribal dance style has a good influence on the development of the positive self-concept of dancers.
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