ممارسة الأنشطة الرياضية والترويحية وعلاقتها بالرفاهية النفسية لدى طلبة المرحلة الأساسية بمدارس محافظة جرش

Abstract EN

This research aimed to identify the role of practising sports and recreational activities and their relationship to psychological well-being among students of the basic stage in the schools of Jerash governorate.

to achieve the objectives of the research, the researcher prepared a questionnaire consisting of (20) psychological and recreational indicators, distributed over four domains of psychological well-being: (physical health, social relations, positive self-esteem, and psychological happiness).

the results showed that the general level of the arithmetic averages of the estimates of the research sample on the axes of the tool was (3.85) with a high degree of appreciation, and the arithmetic averages of the four axes ranged between (3.88 -3.82), where the (physical health) axis came in first place, and got an arithmetic average of (3.88).) with a high degree of appreciation, followed by the axis of social relations with an arithmetic average of (3.85) and a high degree of appreciation, and in the third place the axis of psychological happiness with an arithmetic average of (3.83) and a high degree of appreciation, while the axis of positive self-esteem came in the last rank with an arithmetic average of (3.82) however, it came in a high degree of appreciation, the results also showed a positive, statistically significant correlation at the significance level (0.01) between psychological well-being and its sub- components (positive self-esteem, social relationships, physical health, psychological happiness) and the practice of recreational sports.

the researcher recommended holding training programs for teachers, and for physical education teachers in particular, whose topic is recreational activities and their types, and to indicate their importance in the educational process, because of their significant role in improving the level of psychological well-being and alleviating psychological pressures among students.