A Study on the Promoting Effect of Sports on Middle School Students' Mental Health - Taking a Middle School in Liuzhou City as an Example

DOI: https://doi.org/10.62517/jmpe.202518109

Author(s)

Cui Zhanyuan*, Lu Yuanzhao, Qin Tingnv

Affiliation(s)

School of Physical Education and Health, Guangxi Normal University, Guilin, Guangxi, China *Corresponding Author

Abstract

This paper is mainly based on psychological theory, physical education theory, the use of questionnaire survey method, field survey method on a middle school students' physical exercise and mental health status to investigate the psychological problems relying on physical education class as a form of psychological education and physical education, aimed at the study of the role of physical education and sports on the psychological impact of a middle school students, and the use of physical education classroom as a vehicle for physical education and psychological education integration, in order to effectively and efficiently improve the psychological health of middle school students, enhance the psychological health of middle school students. the purpose is to study the effect of physical education on the psychology of students in a middle school, and to use the physical education classroom as a vehicle to integrate physical education and psychological education, to change the traditional mode of psychological education in middle schools, so as to effectively and efficiently improve the psychological health of middle school students and enhance the psychological health of middle school students. The questionnaire adopts the Chinese Middle School Mental Health Scale (MSSMHS) to rate the experimental subjects' 10 factors of obsessive-compulsive disorder, paranoia, hostility, interpersonal tension and sensitivity, depression, anxiety, learning pressure, maladaptation, emotional imbalance, and psychological imbalance, and adopts the Physical Education and Sports Questionnaire of a Middle School to investigate the experimental subjects' sports, and to follow up on the experimental data obtained to Correlation analysis was carried out. the specific conclusions are as follows. (1) The number of students in a secondary school whose psychological condition is healthy is in the majority, 82%, but 18% of them have psychological problems, and the school should pay attention to psychological education. (2) Students who have a preference for sports and take the initiative to participate in sports have better mental health, and sports have a significant effect on promoting the mental health of secondary school students. (3) Combine physical education with psychological education, give play to the positive influence of sports on mental health, change the traditional way of psychological education, enrich the content and methods of psychological education, so that secondary school students can promote mental health in sports.

Keywords

Secondary School Students; Mental Health; Physical Activity

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