Children who engage in sports activities are more likely to get to control their angry behaviors

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Children who engage in sports activities are more likely to get to control their angry behaviors

Researchers at the Tel Aviv University have conducted a new study which shows that sports can help children improve their cognition, emotional and behavioral well-being.

According to Keren Shahar, a Ph.D. student at Tel Aviv University, in the study participated around 650 students coming from low socioeconomic backgrounds. It seems that these kids improved their behavior and the way they looked at life by playing all sorts of sports. Plus, their physical and emotional conditions also improved. “We set out to determine whether sports training would have a positive impact on these children by lowering aggression, and how this result can be achieved,” Shahar said in a statement.

Furthermore, Shahar also talked about how sports can improve children control their aggression better than verbal therapy. This happens because verbal therapy improves only their anger control, but not their negative emotions, while sports can reduce the aggressive behavior by controlling these negative emotions. The students who participated in the study were followed by Shahar and her colleagues over a period of 24 weeks. During this period, the students engaged in after-school sports activities. Half of the participants were part of the group which was systematically introduced to new sports, while the other half was part of the control group, without receiving any information related to sports. The children had to play sports 3 times per week and these sports included soccer or basketball and twice a week they had to participate in martial arts classes, including karate and judo.

After the 24-week period, Shahar and colleagues asked the children to complete some questionnaires, which they also had to complete at the beginning of the study and then compared them to see the results. According to Shahar, the children who participated in sports activities saw a big improvement when it came to controlling their aggressive behavior and negative emotions. Furthermore, another interesting thing discovered in the study was that boys benefited from sports more than girls. According to Shahar, this happens because girls are not so aggressive as boys are and they are less likely to exhibit any interest in sports. Shahar concluded by saying that children should also be put to do things that appeal to them, in order to shape their behavior and prevent them from developing behavioral problems in the future.

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