@article{ref1,
title="The impact of competitive and non-competitive activities on children's aggression",
journal="Journal of fundamentals of mental health",
year="2019",
author="Sedaghati, Ja&#039 and far,  and Ghassemi, Abdollah and Shojaei, Ma&#039 and ssomeh, ",
volume="21",
number="3",
pages="194-201",
abstract="INTRODUCTION: Regarding to the importance of children and adolescents' aggression in the prediction of problems over the psycho-social adjustments in future, the current study was conducted in order to compare the impact of competitive and non-competitive activities on the aggression of children aged 7-9 and 10-12. <br><br>MATERIALS AND METHODS: The statistical community of this clinical trial consists of 2200 boy students of elementary schools in Khalil Abad city through the academic years 2015-2016. At first, 4 elementary schools were randomly chosen, and 200 students were divided into two competitive and non-competitive groups randomly. The aggression survey for the child aged 7-11 years was given as a pre-test to the participants in the school (teachers' form). The duration of the exercise plan was 12 weeks (twice a week). At the end of the intervention, a post-test was conducted on the groups. The data were analyzed using the multi-variate co-variance test. <br><br>RESULTS The results showed that upon deleting the impact of pre-test of aggression score, the effect of competitive- non-competitive group with the age group on the post-test scores was not significant (P= 0.11 and f (1, 99)=2.47). <br><br>CONCLUSION: Based on the results, competitive or non-competitive activities do not have various effects on the aggression of students.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1028-6918",
doi="10.22038/jfmh.2019.14282",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.22038/jfmh.2019.14282"
}