Study regarding the social-affective Maturity Degree through outdoor Education Activities

Abstract

The present article promotes outdoor education activities as an educational alternative by stimulating certain real situations and implies the resolution of certain tasks in the physical, psychological, and emotional aspects. As a result, the participants assimilate a series of abilities and capacities that contribute to the improvement of personal performance, and the encouragement of certain social acceptance attitudes, such as tolerance, cooperation, mutual help, taking responsibility, inner trust, and teamwork. The main objective of this research is determined by interpersonal social empathetic relationships, by following and learning to overcome difficulties, and by personally improving and developing social relationships. The dynamic character of the outdoor activities also determines different attitudes towards the effectuated activity and different relationships between the members of a group, while the present research studies these interpersonal relationships as well as the place of each subject within the group. The hypothesis has been verified from the experimental point of view, proving the possibility of creating interpersonal relationships through the processes of manipulated social learning given by outdoor education activities. The research confirmed the factors of interpersonal progress.