The Impact of Orienteering Sport Taught Through Creative Drama Methods on Five Factor Personality Dimensions

This study aims to analyze the impact of orienteering sport taught through creative drama methods on individuals’ emotional instability/neuroticism, extroversion, openness to experience, agreeableness and conscientiousness dimensions. With this aim in mind, Adjective Based Personality Test (ABPT) (Bacanlı, İlhan ve Aslan, 2009) consisting of emotional instability/neuroticism, extroversion, openness to experience, agreeableness and conscientiousness dimensions and based on Five-Factor Theory was implemented on physical education department students studying at Kırıkkale University during spring 2010-2011 academic year. The ABPT was implemented on university students before they started studying orienteering sport taught by creative drama methods. The test consisting of emotional instability/neuroticism, extroversion, openness to experience, agreeableness and conscientiousness dimensions includes 40 items. The ABPT was implemented on the students again after they had completed the 10-week orienteering sport programme taught by creative drama methods. The findings of this study revealed that there was a meaningful difference between the emotional instability/neuroticism, extroversion, openness to experience, agreeableness, conscientiousness dimensions pretest and posttest scores of the study group in favour of conscientiousness dimension