Sport Management Studies

Comparison of Quality of Life and Physical Fitness Skills of Users of Electronic and Non-Electronic Sports Games (Case Study: 12th Grade Female Students)

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

farideh iraj 1
zinat nikaeen 1
Ali zarei 2
Farideh Ashraf Ganjooyi 3

1 Department of Sport Management, Islamic Azad University, Central Tehran Branch, Tehran, Iran.

2 Associate Professor, Department of Sports Management, Islamic Azad University, Central Tehran Branch, Tehran, Iran

3 Department of Sports Management, Central Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran

https://doi.org/10.22089/smrj.2020.7722.2689
Abstract
This study investigate the effect of electronic and non- electronic sports on the life quality and physical fitness skill related indicators. The population of this study contained 900 female students of the high schools Shar-e-Rey district 2. Among them 60 were selected randomly and were categorized into four groups according to the amount of their sports activity and electronic sports. The research method was descriptive and semi-experimental, which was conducted in the field. A standard life quality questionnaire was applied to measure the life quality of the subjects and to evaluate the effect of this study on them. The face and content validity of the questionnaire was obtained by the faculty of physical education and its reliability was determined using Cronbach's alpha test of 0.83. Descriptive indices and statistical test of covariance analysis were used to analyze the data. The results of the study indicated that the mean and standard deviation of the post-test of life quality variable were 2.90 ± 0.37 in control group , 2.83 ± 0.31 in sport group, 3.03 ± 0.20 in electronic games and 2.88 ± 0.25 in electronic and sports and games. On the other hand, there was no significant difference between pre-test and post-test of life quality (P> 0.05, F = 1/02). Regarding the physical fitness variables, the results showed that there is a significant difference between the pre-test and the post-test variables of agility, throwing the ball, reaction, raising the shoulder and the horizon bar.

Keywords

Life Quality
Computer Games
Electronic Sports
Non-Electronic Sports
Physical Fitness

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Sport Management Studies
Volume 13, Issue 67
July and August 2021
Pages 89-116

  • Receive Date 14 August 2019
  • Revise Date 01 March 2020
  • Accept Date 22 April 2020

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