The Importance of Physical Education Lessons for the Formation of Self-control and the Decrease of the Reaction to Frustration of Students (The Rosenzweig Projective Test)

Abstract

Problem statement, the Physical Education lesson imprints, along time, a life discipline that positively redounds upon individuals actively involved in the didactic process, beginning with the pre-university level and ending with the level of higher education. A consequent participation of individuals at Physical Education lessons may bring them benefits such as: self-control, the desire of overcoming difficulties, of self-improving, and, nonetheless, of not reacting with exaggeration in front of daily frustrations. Purpose of study, this research started from the hypothesis according to which daily frustrations are often the cause of the apparition of discontent as a feeling negatively manifested through the abandonment of physical education, which will have an effect with negative consequences in the future for these individuals. Research methods, the bibliographic study method; The observation method; The enquiry method, questionnaire; The pedagogical experiment method; The statistical-mathematical method; The graphic method. Findings, physical Education lessons in the university curriculum has a decisive role in helping the individuals to control their manner of reacting in various frustrating situations, its absence leading to deep insecurity and often aggressive reactions. This study has been undertaken on a group of 64 students enrolled in the Petroleum-Gas University from Ploieşti. Conclusions, students who have medical exempts have a very low level of tolerance, as compared to other individuals who participate weekly at Physical Education lessons, and are balanced, flexible, self-confident, using the word as a “shield” where others see nothing except contradictory relations.