Sports activities and their relationship to psychological adjustment for middle school students

Abstract

The research aimed to identify the nature of the relationship between students' practice of sports activities and their psychological compatibility, after their levels are identified, and the researcher has followed to answer the questions of the research and achieve its objectives a descriptive approach using survey methods and correlation relationships, the researcher has identified the research community with middle school students affiliated to the Directorate of Education of Musayyib District, which is administratively affiliated with the General Directorate of Education of Babylon Governorate, whose number is(7850) students belonging to (12) middle schools located within the scope of work of the Directorate, and then the researcher chose (367) students to represent the main research sample based on Thompson's law to determine the sizes of samples, and then this group was divided into three sub-samples, these samples are the sample of the exploratory study with a number of individuals amounting to (17) students, and the statistical analysis sample with a number of individuals amounting to (210) students, and the final application sample with a number of individuals amounting to (140) students, and in order to collect the required data, the researcher prepared two measurement tools, the first tool It measures the level of sports activities by the number of paragraphs () paragraph, while the second tool measures the level of psychological compatibility with the number of paragraphs () paragraph, and after extracting the results and processing them statistically, the researcher reached a set of conclusions, namely:

- Middle school students affiliated with the Directorate of Education of Musayyib District practice sports activities at a high level.

- Middle school students affiliated with the Directorate of Education of Musayyib District have a high level of psychological adjustment during the physical education lesson.

- There is a positive moral correlation between each of the sports activities practiced by students and their psychological adjustment.