Effect of a Motor Physical Program on Psychologically Personal Social Coordination and the Sense of Loneliness in Children Deprived of Family Care | ||||
Journal of Applied Sports Science | ||||
Article 20, Volume 4, Issue 3, November 2014, Page 150-157 PDF (264.23 K) | ||||
Document Type: Original Article | ||||
DOI: 10.21608/jass.2014.84767 | ||||
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Author | ||||
Nadia Ali Abdel Moati | ||||
Faculty of Physical Education for Girls, Helwan University, Cairo, Egypt | ||||
Abstract | ||||
The objective of this research was to identify the effect of a suggested motor physical program on psychologically personal social coordination and the sense of loneliness in children who have been deprived of family care. The researcher used the experimental method of one experimental group with pre and post-measurements and the research sample was selected intentionally from children of (9 to 12) years who have been staying in a shelter house and deprived of family care. The sample included (37) children representing all children in this age group staying in the house and the main research sample was selected randomly from the research society comprised (22) children and the remaining (15) children were subjected to the pilot study to carry out scientific treatments of tests such as validity and stability. As the research tools, the researcher applied a suggested motor physical program designed by her, California Test for children of (9 to 12) years set up by Thorpe, Clark and Tigez. The test measures the child psychological coordination through personal and social coordinations that each one of them includes several axes. Added to these, the scale of the sense of psychological loneliness established by Amani Abdel Maksoud for children of (9 to 12) years in sheltering foundations, contains 4 axes viz. friendship and affection relationships and to what extent they are in need, the sense of loneliness and social avoidance, social skills and fear and no confidence as tools of collecting data. The researcher concluded that the suggested program positively affected the reduction of the sense of psychological loneliness in all axes of the scale and also the program had a positive effect on improving psychologically personal and social coordination and all results were significant. | ||||
Keywords | ||||
Social Coordination; Loneliness | ||||
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