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THE ROLE OF SPORTS ACTIVITIES IN ALLEVIATING ANXIETY AMONG MIDDLE SCHOOL STUDENTS FROM THE TEACHER’S POINT OF VIE

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Hind Qasim Mhalhal1 , Hind Imad Sadiq 2 & Ghufran Abd

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The research problem crystallized in the following question: To what extent sports activities can alleviate the anxiety of a student in middle school, according to the opinion of physical education teachers. The aim of the message was to build a measure of anxiety among middle school students, with regard to the goals. Identify the level of anxiety of middle school students. Identify the role of sports activities to reduce anxiety among middle school students. As for the research method and its field procedures, the researchers used the descriptive approach in the survey method as well as the relational method for its suitability to the nature of the problem. For the academic year 2019/2020, when their total reached (70) teachers, the building sample for the psychological anxiety scale consisted of (60) teachers from middle school schools in the governorate for the year (2019/2020), as it represented (71.85%) of the parent community. The exploratory sample consisted of (10) teachers from the governorate's schools, who were deliberately selected by the percentage (28.14%) of the total community. The procedures for building the scale included, determining the scale, building the scale, determining the goal of construction, determining the phenomenon to be measured, identifying areas, determining the validity of dimensions, preparing paragraphs, determining the validity of paragraphs. The exploratory experiment, the main experiment, correcting the scale, the statistical analysis of the paragraphs, the psychometric characteristics of the scale, the final description of the scale, the main application experiment to apply the tests, the results were presented, analyzed and discussed through the statistical kit (SPSS) to find out the level of psychological anxiety of middle school students, On the light of the results, the researchers reached a set of conclusions, the most important of which are: - The existence of a positive moral correlation between sports activities and reducing anxiety among middle school students.

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