Joy in Movement: Traditional Sporting Games and Emotional Experience in Elementary Physical Education.

Alcaraz Muñoz, Verónica; Cifo Izquierdo, María Isabel; Alonso Roque, José Ignacio; Yuste Lucas, Juan Luis; Gea García, Gemma Maria

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Joy in Movement: Traditional Sporting Games and Emotional Experience in Elementary Physical Education.

dc.contributor.author	Alcaraz Muñoz, Verónica
dc.contributor.author	Cifo Izquierdo, María Isabel
dc.contributor.author	Alonso Roque, José Ignacio
dc.contributor.author	Yuste Lucas, Juan Luis
dc.contributor.author	Gea García, Gemma Maria
dc.contributor.department	Expresión Plástica, Musical y Dinámica
dc.coverage.spatial	España, Región de Murcia	es
dc.coverage.temporal	Siglo XXI	es
dc.date.accessioned	2024-02-05T08:04:52Z
dc.date.available	2024-02-05T08:04:52Z
dc.date.issued	2020
dc.description	Copyright © 2020 Alcaraz-Muñoz, Cifo Izquierdo, Gea García, Alonso Roque and Yuste Lucas. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
dc.description.abstract	Through games a motivating learning climate is provided, generating mainly positive emotions among the students by the very nature of the game. However, while the early stages are the most important for emotional well-being development, research about scientific knowledge of emotional physical education in children is still scarce. The aims of this study were to analyze the intensity of emotions (positive or negative) produced when players took part in games of different social structure, with or without competition (winner or loser), with or without sport experience and to examine the explanations given by the participants for these emotional experiences. Participants (N = 152) were recruited from two Spanish elementary school. We applied Student’s t-test and one-factor ANOVA. Students’ subjective comments were classified through content analysis in macro categories and we used the Chi-square Automatic Interaction Detector (CHAID, implemented in SPSSTM Answer Tree® 13.0). The application of a mixed-methods approach identified statistically significant differences in four variables: (a) the type of emotion, (b) motor domain, (c) type of outcome (winning, losing, and non-competitive), and (d) sport experience. The intensity of positive emotions was higher (M = 3.71, SD = 0.893) than negative emotions (M = 1.18, SD = 0.253, p < 0.001). Furthermore, negative emotions were felt with different intensities (F3 = 3.82, p = 0.011, ES = 0.071), depending on the motor action domain. Comments referring to negative emotions were more frequent in individual games. Winning was associated significantly (p < 0.05) with the highest intensity ratings of positive emotions, whereas losing produced the highest values for negative emotions. The intensity ratings for positive or negative emotions not were different between non-competitive games and competitive games. The sport experience relativizes the mean of emotional intensity, both positive and negative. The present study brings the value of considering games as a key role to promote a physical education addressed to the education of social-emotional well-being in schoolchildren, as the basis of academic training. Furthermore, the results could benefit teachers as well as coaches have scientific input to organize teaching content, generating the desired motor behaviors together with positive experiences.	es
dc.format	application/pdf	es
dc.format.extent	11	es
dc.identifier.doi	fpsyg.2020.588640
dc.identifier.eisbn	Frontiers in Psycholgy, Volume 11, 2020	es
dc.identifier.issn	1664-1078
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10201/138580
dc.language	eng	es
dc.publisher	Frontiers	es
dc.relation	Sin financiación externa a la Universidad	es
dc.relation.publisherversion	https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.588640/full	es
dc.relation.requires	https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.588640	es
dc.rights	info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess	es
dc.rights	Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internacional	*
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/	*
dc.subject	Emotional well-being	es
dc.subject	Traditional games	es
dc.subject	Interpersonal relationships	es
dc.subject	Emotions	es
dc.subject	Physical education	es
dc.subject.other	CDU::3 - Ciencias sociales::37 - Educación. Enseñanza. Formación. Tiempo libre	es
dc.subject.other	CDU::1 - Filosofía y psicología::159.9 - Psicología	es
dc.title	Joy in Movement: Traditional Sporting Games and Emotional Experience in Elementary Physical Education.	es
dc.type	info:eu-repo/semantics/article	es
dspace.entity.type	Publication	es