"The Effectiveness Of A Proposed Sports Program Based On Part-Sports Games To Reduce Symptoms Of Depression Among Middle School Students"

Abstract

The study aimed to identify symptoms of depression among middle school students. We used the experimental method on a study sample of 40 students who were divided into two groups:

The experimental group (20) students and the control group (20), were chosen from 108 students from the previous two middle schools, who obtained the highest scores on the Beck depression scale. We applied the proposed sports program, and after using the study tools and performing statistical processing of the data, we reached To the following results: There were statistically significant differences in the degree of depressive symptoms between the pre- and post-measurements among the experimental group in favor of the post-measurements.

There are statistically significant differences in the degree of depression between the experimental and control groups in favor of the experimental group.