The Effectiveness of Physical Activity on Enhancing Generalized Anxiety Disorder: A Review Study

Background: The present article is a review with the aim of investigating the effects of exercise and physical activity on generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) in different populations. Methods: To collect information, articles were first searched using the keywords of “generalizes anxiety disorder”, “sport”, “acute exercise”, “aerobic training”, and “resistance training”. The research was conducted between 2015 and 2020, and the databases used included Google Scholar, PubMed, Science Direct, and Springer. Finally, 12 articles met the standard and set criteria and were selected. After selecting the articles, the information related to each extracted article was reviewed using a specific checklist and in summary form. Findings: The types of aerobic and strength training used to improve GAD in different people have had positive results (including improvement of sleep and personality and improvement of anxiety disorders). Research also shows that the mechanisms that cause exercise to have such effects are a combination of biological and psychological factors. Conclusion: Physical activity while reducing the symptoms and complications of mental illness can act as an effective treatment and even prevention for anxiety disorders such as GAD

Why Do Children and Adolescents Participate in Physical Activity and Sports? Exploring Perspective of Athletes, Parents, and Coaches

The purpose this research is investigating the attitude of children, adolescents, parents and trainers towards sport and physical activity. This research was conducted in qualitative method and using semi structured interview with 25 interviewees including 12 children, 8 and 5 coaches were parent. Press Briefing was all recorded and transcribed to text implementation. Finally the data was analyzed using qualitative content analysis method. Research findings are categorized into intrinsic and extrinsic motivation. Intrinsic motivation includes psychological and need of achievement motivations and extrinsic motivation includes opportunities, well-being and health motivations, getting support from family, trainers and environment, external motivations, community motivations, improving life skills life, implication of role models and media, and focusing on work without getting distracted. Based on results of this research, it can be said that young athletes tend to do sport for different goals in mind the most important of which is psychological motivations. Parents and trainers for encouraging them toward sport and to achieve their own goals should be used this kind of motivations.The purpose this research is investigating the attitude of children, adolescents, parents and trainers towards sport and physical activity. This research was conducted in qualitative method and using semi structured interview with 25 interviewees including 12 children, 8 and 5 coaches were parent. Press Briefing was all recorded and transcribed to text implementation

Comparing aggression between team athletes (contact, non contact) and non athletes

Aggression is among the most significant issues in many societies today, specifically in younger generation, leading to numerous problems. This inspires researchers to look for ways to solve this individual and social problem. One of these well-known ways to reduce aggression is exercise and sports. As a result, the aim of the present study is to compare the aggression among athletes of various disciplines including collision groups, non-collision groups and non-athletes. The design of the study is descriptive and of scientific-comparative kind. 120 people were selected randomly from the male athletes and non-athletes in Yazd. The demographic-aggressive questionnaire of Bass and Perry (1992) was employed for the purpose of this study. For data analysis, descriptive statistics and inferential tests of goodness of fit (k-s) and one-way ANOVA were used.  The results showed that non-athletes were significantly more aggressive compared to group sport athletes (collision and non-collision). The results further showed that there is no significant difference in terms of aggression between athletes of the collision group sports and those of non-collision group sports