Autonomy-supportive physical education, harmonious passion, and mental health in adolescent girls during COVID-19
Background & Aims: A crucial issue for the health of children and adolescents is understanding how to boost their level of physical activity during the COVID-19 outbreak. The pandemic has limited opportunities for engaging in physical activity, even for activities that students find enjoyable....
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Urmia University of Medical Sciences
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| description | Background & Aims: A crucial issue for the health of children and adolescents is understanding how to boost their level of physical activity during the COVID-19 outbreak. The pandemic has limited opportunities for engaging in physical activity, even for activities that students find enjoyable.
Materials & Methods: This study investigates students’ autonomy in sports to foster harmonious passion for physical activity and mental health. Self-determination theory was used as the theoretical framework. A total of 236 female students (Mage = 15.36) participated in a 16-week research project. Samples were randomly divided into an autonomy-support group and a control group.
Results: The results showed that the experimental group had more harmonious passion (p < 0.05). They also reported more physical activity, less loneliness, and greater mental vitality (p < 0.05).
Conclusion: Physical education based on autonomy support during the COVID-19 pandemic was effective in fostering harmonious passion for physical activity and reducing the negative psychological consequences of virus outbreaks. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-11b133fdc1ce42ef9ebe58f65fbbe8352025-08-20T03:49:03ZengUrmia University of Medical SciencesJournal of Research in Applied and Basic Medical Sciences2717-00982025-04-01112125138Autonomy-supportive physical education, harmonious passion, and mental health in adolescent girls during COVID-19Solmaz Babaei0Masoumeh Parvaneh1 Associate Professor, Department of Sports Sciences, Faculty of Humanities, University of Maragheh, Maragheh, Iran PhD in Motor Behavior, Faculty of Sports Science, Urmia University, Urmia, Iran Background & Aims: A crucial issue for the health of children and adolescents is understanding how to boost their level of physical activity during the COVID-19 outbreak. The pandemic has limited opportunities for engaging in physical activity, even for activities that students find enjoyable. Materials & Methods: This study investigates students’ autonomy in sports to foster harmonious passion for physical activity and mental health. Self-determination theory was used as the theoretical framework. A total of 236 female students (Mage = 15.36) participated in a 16-week research project. Samples were randomly divided into an autonomy-support group and a control group. Results: The results showed that the experimental group had more harmonious passion (p < 0.05). They also reported more physical activity, less loneliness, and greater mental vitality (p < 0.05). Conclusion: Physical education based on autonomy support during the COVID-19 pandemic was effective in fostering harmonious passion for physical activity and reducing the negative psychological consequences of virus outbreaks.http://ijrabms.umsu.ac.ir/article-1-382-en.pdfautonomy-supportdualistic model of passionlonelinesssubjective vitalitycorona virus |
| spellingShingle | Solmaz Babaei Masoumeh Parvaneh Autonomy-supportive physical education, harmonious passion, and mental health in adolescent girls during COVID-19 Journal of Research in Applied and Basic Medical Sciences autonomy-support dualistic model of passion loneliness subjective vitality corona virus |
| title | Autonomy-supportive physical education, harmonious passion, and mental health in adolescent girls during COVID-19 |
| title_full | Autonomy-supportive physical education, harmonious passion, and mental health in adolescent girls during COVID-19 |
| title_fullStr | Autonomy-supportive physical education, harmonious passion, and mental health in adolescent girls during COVID-19 |
| title_full_unstemmed | Autonomy-supportive physical education, harmonious passion, and mental health in adolescent girls during COVID-19 |
| title_short | Autonomy-supportive physical education, harmonious passion, and mental health in adolescent girls during COVID-19 |
| title_sort | autonomy supportive physical education harmonious passion and mental health in adolescent girls during covid 19 |
| topic | autonomy-support dualistic model of passion loneliness subjective vitality corona virus |
| url | http://ijrabms.umsu.ac.ir/article-1-382-en.pdf |
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