Research regarding sport activities influence in fighting stress at sportive and non-sportive

Abstract

Nowadays daily activities and the everyday rush for success and material fulfilment leads to a lot of stress accumulation and tiredness. Our research started from the idea that sport activities are a good way of distressing and escape from daily problems, and also we wanted to verify if people who practice performance sport are more resistant to stress then people that practice once or twice a week sports activities. The research had as sample two groups: the experiment group formed by 50 professional sportsman (26 females, 24 males, averaging age ±18.68 years old) that are professional sportsman; and the second group, the control group, was formed by 50 students (23 females and 27 males, averaging age ±19.12 years old) from different faculties from “Lucian Blaga” University Sibiu that practice sports just once a week on the optional PE classes. The main research method was the Perceived Stress Scale (PSS) being one of the most used psychological method for measuring the stress levels. The conclusions of our research shows that the experiment group where we had performance sportive has better results at the stress test then the control group where we had students that practice fewer sports activities. The study reveals that sportive cope better with stressful situations and also with recovery from stressful activities then people who practice less motor activities, sport activities puts them in different situation that force them to be mentally though.