Journal of Sports and Motor Development and Learning
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The Effect of a Period of Regular Exercise Activity on the Aggression of Educable Mentally Retarded Students

Document Type : Research Paper I Open Access I Released under CC BY-NC 4.0 license

Authors

Janbaba Aghaeinejad 1
Salar Faramarzi 2
Ahmad Abedi 2

1 Islamic Azad University of Isfahan (Khorasgan Branch)

2 Isfahan University

https://doi.org/10.22059/jmlm.2013.32149
Abstract
The current study aimed to examine the effect of a period of regular exercise on
the aggression of educable mentally retarded students aged between 9 and 15 in
Lordegan city. For this purpose, 28 students were selected randomly and divided
into two groups: 7 boys and 7 girls in experimental group and 7 boys and 7 girls in
control group. Ghezelseflu et al. (1387) aggression scale was used as a pretest for
both groups. A period of exercise program as an intervention program was run for
2 months, every week, 3 sessions (45 minutes) per week on the experimental group.
After intervention program, aggression scale was run again. The data were
analyzed by covariance using spss software. The results showed that a significant
difference between control and experimental groups' performance (P<0.001) in
aggression which showed that a period of exercise program reduced the
aggression and its subscales in the experimental group. It was concluded that
regular exercise program reduced the aggression of educable mentally retarded
students.

Keywords

Regular Exercise Program
Aggression
students
mentally retarded
educable
Journal of Sports and Motor Development and Learning
Volume 5, 2 (12) - Serial Number 2
Summer 2013
Pages 91-105

  • Receive Date 05 February 2012
  • Revise Date 06 August 2013
  • Accept Date 07 October 2012

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