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The effect of recreational activities on self-esteem development of girls in adolescence

Author(s) -

Bayazit Betul

Publication year - 2014

Publication title -

educational research and reviews

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

ISSN - 1990-3839

DOI - 10.5897/err2014.1860

Subject(s) - recreation , self esteem , psychology , significant difference , basketball , test (biology) , clinical psychology , developmental psychology , physical therapy , medicine , geography , paleontology , archaeology , political science , law , biology

This study aimed to investigate the effect of recreational activities on self-esteem development of girls in adolescence. For this purpose, a total of 20 girls in adolescence period took part in the present study. Recreational activities program included bowling, patenga, orienteering, basketball, volleyball, badminton, ping-pong, dance, fun athletics. This program lasted for 90 min a day, 2 days a week for 10 weeks. Coopersmith (1967) Self-esteem scale was used to determine self-esteem levels of the girls in adolescence. The data was analyzed using SPSS 18.0 Package Program. Descriptive statistics and paired samples t test were used to analyze the data. Level of significance was determined to be 0.05. As a result of this study, there is a significant difference between self-esteem pretest and self-esteem posttest scores (p<0.05). Key words: Self-esteem, recreation activities, adolescence.

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