TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2019//
TI  - The impact of competitive and non-competitive activities on children's aggression
JO  - Journal of fundamentals of mental health
A1  - Sedaghati, Ja&#039
A1  - far, 
A1  - Ghassemi, Abdollah
A1  - Shojaei, Ma&#039
A1  - ssomeh, 
SP  - 194
EP  - 201
VL  - 21
IS  - 3
N2  - 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>
LA  - en
SN  - 1028-6918
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.22038/jfmh.2019.14282
ID  - ref1
ER  -