From Conflict to Socio-Emotional Well-Being. Application of the GIAM Model through Traditional Sporting Games

Aaron Rillo-Albert,Pere Lavega-Burgués,Antoni Costes,Unai Sáez de Ocáriz

doi:10.3390/su13137263

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The education of pleasant interpersonal relationships is one of the great challenges of modern physical education. Learning to live together sustainably is also learning to transform conflicts and the negative emotions elicited by them. The aim of this study was to determine the effect of the GIAM pedagogical model (of the Motor Action Research Group) through cooperation-opposition traditional sporting games with competition in the presence of motor conflicts (conflict transformation; relational well-being) and on emotional regulation (management of negative emotions; emotional well-being). Empirical research was carried out using an associative strategy (explanatory study) involving 222 secondary school students (Mage = 14.86; SD = 0.65). A seven-session pedagogical intervention was carried out based on a championship using the Marro (Prisoner’s Bar) game. The students answered two validated questionnaires of socio-emotional well-being, the Games and Emotions Scale (GES-II) and the Motor Conflict Questionnaire (MCQ), at three phases during the experience (beginning, middle, and end). The findings showed that, through the GIAM model, motor conflicts and the intensity of negative emotions were reduced. It was found that conflicts and negative emotions are part of the same phenomenon and that through an appropriate pedagogical program it is possible to turn them into experiences of socio-emotional well-being.

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IntroductionPublisher’s Note: MDPI stays neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations
People exchange relationships, meanings, and emotions so that a process of emotional and relational literacy takes place [1]. Such relationships can bring about relational well-being and positive emotions, but they can be accompanied by interpersonal tensions that often lead to conflict and negative emotional states [2,3,4]
We set out to study the effect of the GIAM model in 3rd and 4th-year secondary school students using cooperation-opposition traditional sporting games with competition (TSGCOPC) on: (a) the presence of motor conflicts (MCs) between peers and between opponents and (b) emotional intensity

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Publisher’s Note: MDPI stays neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. By nature, a social being who, from the moment of birth, experiences a great diversity of interpersonal relationships. People exchange relationships, meanings, and emotions so that a process of emotional and relational literacy takes place [1]. Such relationships can bring about relational well-being and positive emotions, but they can be accompanied by interpersonal tensions that often lead to conflict and negative emotional states [2,3,4]

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