Effect of Physical-Sports Leisure Activities on Young People’s Psychological Wellbeing (original) (raw)
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2013
We all know that psychological well-being is not possible without physical well-being, both aspects are interrelated. Recreational sport activity is crucial to health, fitness and well-being. It builds strength, maintains mobility, and challenges body and mind. Thus, the present study was designed to examine the role of recreational sport activities on the psychological well-being of children. The study was carried out with 200 children (100 government and 100 private schools) by using psychological well-being scale and an intervention program. With respect to assess the role of recreational sport activity on the psychological well-being, the sample was divided into two groups (control and experimental). Intervention program was designed to the experimental groups only. Result indicated that recreational sport activity has a facilitating role in promoting psychological well-being of children in both private and government schools.
isara solutions, 2015
The purpose of this study is to investigate the impact of physical education and sports in promoting social values among youth. Physical education and sports play a vital role in educating the youth regarding the importance of social values in their life. Reviewed literature investigated the importance of association in educating both minds and body. Further, it also encourages the social values among youth that allow them to develop the social relations with their community. Moreover, the benefits of physical education and sports can influence both academic learning and physical activity of the youth.
Sport and Physical Activities as the Ground for Supporting Subjective Well-being
Allameh Tabataba’i University Press, 2019
There is almost a global consensus over this fact that well-being is the ultimate purpose of any policy-making, especially in democratic governments. Participating in organized sports is regarded as one of the important social grounds (institutions) with the potential capability of supporting the mental health. High and long-term participation and attractive environments make organized sports a significant and positive instrument for facilitating the population level change in case of health treatments such as promoting the mental health, enhancing the emotional/social performance and the life quality related to social relationships. Taking part in sports spaces and fields or watching the sport matches create this feeling in the individuals that there is something going on that is far more important than the scores and results; as if the collective mind is given a new energy, and the individuals experience a sort of joy and happiness caused by participating in sport events or just watching them. Sports can be an attractive environment for supporting the subjective well-being, which can be realized by focusing on the importance of sports in childhood and adolescence, while supporting the subjective well-being in such periods and considering its positive effects on the future periods of life. Since subjective well-being is considered as a developmental index of societies and regarding the significant role of sports and physical activities in creating such feeling, it seems necessary that more attention be paid to sports and principled investments be done in this social institution, besides having responsible management and planning. The instances of such marks can be enumerated as the development of sport clubs, development of sport for all, building health road in public places like parks and sidewalks, and providing sports and sports facilities for all categories and groups of the society regardless of gender, age and ethnicity.
Aspects of Leisure on Adolescent’s Well-Being in Two Countries
Child Indicators Research, 2013
Leisure is among the perspectives of the scientific investigation on well-being in adolescence. This study verifies the relationships among motivation, organization and satisfaction with the activities of leisure and well-being in adolescents of Spain and Brazil. Participants were adolescents aged from 12 to 16 from the Autonomous Community of Catalonia, Spain (n=1,280) and from the Rio Grande do Sul State, Brazil (n=1,588). From the total sample (n=2,868), 59.8 % are girls. Data collection was made through questionnaires administration in public and private schools and followed all ethics procedure of each country. Personal well-being was accessed using the Personal Well-being Index (PWI) and leisure aspects were accessed using different measures concerning the preferences, the motivation and the structure of adolescents' leisure. Preliminary analysis verified the adequacy of the instruments' factor structures (exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis). After that, it was proposed a model with the relations of the variables using Structural Equation Modeling technique, and a final model achieved good fit indexes (χ2(190)=715.2, CFI=.965, RMSEA (CI)=.03 [.02-.03]). In this model, the aspects that are related to adolescents' well-being are: intrinsic motivation, satisfaction with ludic activities and those related to interpersonal relationship and also the leisure structure. Multigroup analysis showed that the model fits well for both countries (χ2(409)=1052.9, CFI=.957, RMSEA (CI)=.02 [.02-.03]). These findings point to the importance of interventions that take into account these aspects of adolescents' leisure, considering its influence on their well-being.
Sports Participation and Well-being of Adolescents: Are They Related
International Journal of Human Movement and Sports Sciences, 2022
Background: Participation in sports helps an individual to achieve recommended levels of daily moderate to vigorous physical activity (MVPA). MVPA plays a vital role in bringing about positive psychological and physiological changes contributing to both physical and emotional well-being. Aims: There is a scarcity of data to understand the role of regular participation in sports in promoting the overall physical activity in Indian adolescents. Our objective was to evaluate the sports participation as a means of enhancing physical and psychological health of children and youth by helping them to achieve daily physical activity requirements. Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted on a sample of 509 [n=259, athletic adolescents (AA) and n=250, non-athletic adolescents (NAA)]. Ryff's Psychological well-being questionnaire was used to assess their mental well-being state. Physical well-being VO 2 max and anthropometric parameters were assessed. Data were analysed using IBM SPSS version 20. Results: In the findings of the study, majority of NAA were found to be practicing low physical activity levels while in contrast, majority of AA were able to achieve moderate to vigorous levels of physical activity. AA were found with significantly better scores for personal growth, positive relations with others, purpose in life, self-acceptance and total psychological well-being. Prevalence of overweight adolescents was higher in NAA than AA, while VO 2 max of AA was higher than NAA. Conclusion: MVPA is favourably associated with overall well-being of adolescents. Sports participation has a positive impact on both physical and mental health and should be encouraged since childhood years.
International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity, 2013
Background: The definition of health incorporates the physical, social and mental domains, however the Physical Activity (PA) guidelines do not address social health. Furthermore, there is insufficient evidence about the levels or types of PA associated specifically with psychological health. This paper first presents the results of a systematic review of the psychological and social health benefits of participation in sport by adults. Secondly, the information arising from the systematic review has been used to develop a conceptual model of Health through Sport. Methods: A systematic review of 14 electronic databases was conducted in June 2012, and studies published since 1990 were considered for inclusion. Studies that addressed mental and/or social health benefits from participation in sport were included.
Study on the social significance of recreational sport
2020
The acceleration of contemporary world events, global social, political and economic transformations that have changed traditions and ideologies into new forms adopted by young generations have also brought new content, methods and skills to the field of physical education and sport that have reformed the system and are able to respond to solving unknowns that have pushed to another stage the practice of sports activities. The development of information technology has attracted the lack of interest of young people for movement through forms of practice, known as sometimes unattractive. The purpose of this study is to argue the rethinking of the composition of physical education programs, the discovery of solid evidence based on the reasons for practicing physical sports, the presentation of models to follow and the adaptation of basic structures to human evolution. Assumption. In this study we tried to find out what are the elements that could motivate students to practice physical ...
The Value of Sport: Wellbeing Benefits of Sport Participation during Adolescence
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health , 2022
Insight into the unique benefits of sport participation above and beyond those associated with participation in other physical activities among adolescents is limited in Aotearoa New Zealand (NZ). The purpose of this study was to examine the association between wellbeing and organised sport participation among adolescents whilst accounting for demographic characteristics and other recreational physical activity. Demographic characteristics (age, gender, ethnicity, deprivation, (dis)ability status), organized sport, recreational physical activity, and wellbeing were assessed in cohorts of NZ adolescents (11–17 years) between 2017 and 2019. After adjusting for demographics, better wellbeing was associated with participation in any recreational physical activity (OR = 2.49,95%CI = 1.97–3.13), meeting physical activity recommendations (OR = 1.63, 95%CI = 1.47–1.81),and each additional hour of recreational physical activity (OR = 1.03, 95%CI = 1.02–1.04). After adjusting for demographics and overall recreational physical activity participation, better wellbeing was also associated with participation in any organized sport (OR = 1.66, 95%CI = 1.49–1.86), and each additional hour of organized sport (OR = 1.09, 95%CI = 1.07–1.11). Although participation in recreational physical activity appears to be beneficial for wellbeing, organized sport appears to offer unique additional wellbeing benefits. Positive experiences of organized sport participation may offer additional wellbeing value above and beyond other recreational physical activity types in young people who are active.
THE INFLUENCE OF SPORTS PARTICIPATION ON SOCIO-PSYCHOLOGICAL VARIABLES OF SPORTSPERSON
Youth are the salt of nation. Nations development depends on its youthful productive human resource. Healthy youthfulness emerges from all round development of the children. Physical exercises, sports and yoga play the vital role in ensuring sound health of the children. Sports and yoga help the children physically, psychologically and intellectually. Thus calls for a scientific study development of the children in order to have healthy youth to the nation. Sample: A sample of 200 Sports person and non-sports person were selected for the study. The subjects age ranged from 19 to 25 years. Method: The subjects were administered the standardized questionnaires for collecting the relevant data.