Assertivenes, Attention and the Relationship between Swimming Training and Them

Abstract

This research was conducted to reveal the relationship between swimming and some psychological parameters. The research goal is to define the effect of week-8 swimming training program on the assertiveness and attention levels of high school students aged 15-18 in Sakarya city in Turkey.For investigating the relationship, students (100) aged 15-18 voluntarily participated in the study. All partici-pants divided into two groups as control and experiment. In the process of this research, as data collection tools, Rathus Assertiveness Inventory and Burdon Attention Scale were used to determine scores of the assertiveness and attention levels as pre and post tests. The data obtained in the study, which was conducted with an experimental and sequential design method, were analyzed in the SPSS pro-gram and the level of significance was taken as 0.05. In order to compare the pre-test and post-test results of the experimental and control groups, the Mann Whitney U-test was used in independent groups and the Wilcoxon Signed Ranks test in dependent groups. In the assertiveness inventory re-sults, a statistically significant difference was found between the assertiveness pre-test and post-test results of the experimental group and the post-test results of the control group. In the attention level results, a statistically significant difference was found between the attention level pre-test and post-test results of the experimental group and the post-test results of the control group. Research results showed that swimming training program designed 8-week positively affects high school students' assertiveness and attention levels.