The effect of a psychomotor approach of basketball to self-efficacy and some basic movements for female students aged (14-15) years

Abstract

The research aimed to prepare a measure of self-efficacy for female students aged (14-15) years, as well as to identify the effect of the psychomotor approach in basketball on self-efficacy and some basic movements for female students aged (14-15) years. The research sample consisted of female students in the second middle school year. Al-Aqeedah High School for Girls in Al-Rusafa II for the academic year (2023-2024), numbering (24) students from the original research community, numbering (128) students. Pre-tests were conducted on the two groups, and then the equivalence in the dependent research variables was extracted. After that, the vocabulary of the psychomotor approach in basketball was applied within the educational units, which numbered (10) units, at the rate of two educational units per week, and the time of each unit was (45) minutes, and after the end of the duration of the educational units. Posttests were conducted. The researcher came up with several conclusions, the most important of which was: The psychomotor approach to basketball played an effective and significant role in the self-efficacy and jumping, throwing, and standing movements of second-year middle school female students aged (14-15) years. The researcher recommended the need to adopt the psychomotor approach to basketball and apply it to middle school female students during physical education lessons, paying attention to the female students’ self-efficacy and strengthening it through psychological preparation programs linked to physical education curricula in middle schools.