Sports activities and their relationship to psychological trends among intermediate school students of Babylon Governorate

Abstract

Sports activities are considered to be significant activities that are studied, placed and followed with modern methods to discover the type of relationship for middle school students through their enthusiasm for sports activities or vice versa, and because sports activities vary and their relationship with psychological trends greatly among students. And because of the multiplicity of stimuli for them through emotional charges. It affects motivation and directs behavior, leading to it being considered an element that will help create a strong desire among students to engage in most activities in schools, especially sports. The emergence of new teaching methods has prompted many researchers to study and research its details and methods, including the two researchers. Perhaps the most important of these methods is the subject of sports activities and how to hold them in a manner that matches the desire and behavior of students and the methods of using them by teachers and the successes achieved that naturally lead them to use them in the teaching process. The researchers used the descriptive survey method because it is suitable for the nature of the research. The research aims to identify the relationship between sports activities and psychological trends among intermediate school students in Babil Governorate. The research aims to prepare two scales (for sports activities and psychological trends) among intermediate school students. The research came out with a set of conclusions: First, middle school students enjoyed a high degree of sports activity. Second, middle school students enjoyed a great deal of psychological orientation. Third, there was a positive correlation between sports activities and psychological orientation among middle school students.