Document Type : Research Paper
Authors
Abstract
The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of sport activities on anxiety and its relationship between boys high school non-athletes educational progress. Statistical population of this study included 18 high school students of Ilam (3753 = N). All of the 8 school students were cluster- randomly selected of research samples. Then they were randomly divided two experimental and control groups (4 schools for experimental group and 4 schools for control group). Then all students were standardization based on age, height, weight, and physical education score at the previous term before participation at the research period. Experimental subjects in each group were taught volleyball, basketball, running and badminton in the second semester 91-92. The educational period was 2 sessions per week. The control group subjects participated in physical education lessons. They had not taught the mention sports. To achieve the research goals was used 28-SCL questionnaire. Validity of the questionnaire was confirmed by 15 experts and its reliability was studied in a pilot study with 30 subjects and calculated as 0.93 respectively. For data analysis the descriptive statistics and inferential statistics methods, including Kolmogorov- Smirnov, Single sample T-student test, and path analysis, ANOVA, Shefee test, linear regression and multiple regression by application of SPSS.V.16 software was used were used. Research findings showed that there is a significant relationship between students' anxiety levels and their sport activities. The anxiety and sport activities predictor of student achievement are.
Keywords
)