The effects of swimming on reducing psychological stress and anxiety among housewives

Abstract EN

The study focuses on the extent to which swimming as a recreational sport, through its various programs, contributes to mental health by reducing the severity of psychological pressure and severity of anxiety as a trait and a state for housewives.

it also examines the extent to which this popular type of sport contributes to all segments of society, especially the category of women who stay at home.

this group believes that they are concerned with a share of psychological comfort, emotional balance, and controlling a great deal of psychological pressure and anxiety that accompanies staying at home because they are not working, not to mention their right to fitness, a healthy figure, and other physiological dimensions.

the researcher relied on a sample of forty (40) randomly selected housewife women, twenty (20) of whom practice swimming regularly in the swimming pool in Khemis Miliana city, and (20) others who do not practice, to reveal the extent of the differences that exist between the two samples.

the researcher also relied on a measurement tool, which is the psychological stress perception scale and the anxiety scale (trait and state), following the descriptive approach, which is justified in the current study.

the research concluded that practicing swimming has a significant impact in reducing the severity of anxiety as a trait and condition, as well as psychological pressure, including enjoying a kind of psychological health.