Mood States and Game Performance in Invasion Game Activities: A Correlation Study Among Elementary School Students

DOI

10.2991/ahsr.k.200214.027How to use a DOI?

Keywords

moods, invasion game, physical education

Abstract

Children play games for the same reason. They play because playing is fun. Interest to games may have meaningful psychological benefits for children. The purpose of this study was to examine the association between short-term psychological effects, especially moods states, and games performance in invasion game activities setting at elementary students. Correlational approach was used to analyse the results of this study. Third grade elementary school students were enrolled in this study. Forty elementary students were assigned to invasion games in 8 minute game, which was divided into two minute halves. The game taught used invasion games was handball, which fields size and rules were modified. Pleasant and unpleasant moods using Brief Mood Introspection Scale (BMIS) were assessed before experimental conditions. BMIS with 8 sub-scales pleasant mood states (active, calm, caring, content, happy, lively, loving, and peppy) and unpleasant mood states (drowsy, fed up, gloomy, grouchy, jittery, nervous, sad, and tired) are rated on a 4-point Likert scale ranging from 1 (definitely do not feel) to 4 (definitely feel). It was found that pleasant moods states correlated with games performance and games involvement of the student in games activities. This study suggests physical educators to setting motivated climate to increase moods states in order to engage children in physical activities.

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© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Eka Nugraha
AU  - Ricky Wibowo
AU  - Helmy Firmansyah
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/02/19
TI  - Mood States and Game Performance in Invasion Game Activities: A Correlation Study Among Elementary School Students
BT  - Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Sport Science, Health, and Physical Education (ICSSHPE 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 95
EP  - 98
SN  - 2468-5739
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/ahsr.k.200214.027
DO  - 10.2991/ahsr.k.200214.027
ID  - Nugraha2020
ER  -