Effect of a counseling Program to Lessen the Anxiety of Learning Swimming for the Students of College of Sport Education

• Main Authors: Zuhair Yahya Al-Maadhidi, Mohammad Qaidar Mohammad
• Format: Article
• Language: Arabic
• Published: College of Physical Education and Sport Sciences 2014-08-01
• Series: مجلة الرافدين للعلوم الرياضية
• Subjects: counseling program; the anxiety of learning swimming; students of college of sport education
• Online Access: https://rsprs.mosuljournals.com/article_89585_47a50e3178126614ab237360bef495ae.pdf

The research aimed at : 1. Recognizing the level of swimming –learning anxiety for the first-year students / college of sport education / Mosul university . 2. Preparing a counseling program to lessen swimming-learning anxiety for the first-year students / college of sport education / Mosul university . 3. Finding the effect of the counseling program on lessening swimming-learning anxiety for the first-year students / college of sport education / Mosul university . The researchers have adopted the experimental methodology for its convenience to the nature of the research . The research sample includes the first-year students / college of sport education of those can not swim. Thus, the research sample includes (20) students as ( 37.73%) from the total research community (semester 2012-2013). The researchers have used (scale of swimming anxiety ) prepared by (Mohammad Hasan Allawi) . Also, they constructed a counseling program to lessen swimming-learning anxiety which they applied on the experimental research sample . The program includes (10) sessions . The main research experiment has been applied on the experimental group at the swimming pool of Mosul university from 6/3 to 8/5/2013. The researchers have used the statistical means (arithmetic mean, standard deviation, percentage , t-Test for the correlated samples , t-Test for the independent samples, and simple correlation coefficient “Pearson” ). The researchers have concluded the following : 1. The effect of the counseling program on lessening swimming-learning anxiety for the experimental group observed clearly via the appearance of statistical-significant differences between the experimental group and the control group and for the benefit of the experimental group. 2. The counseling program which applied on the experimental research group had a clear effect on their comprehension to their anxiety case and their dealing with it . 3. The researchers have noticed the research sample during the practical lessons of swimming , and find that the experimental group was able to learn swimming in a period shorter than the period lasted by the control group which indicates the effectiveness of the adopted counseling program. In addition, the researchers have recommended the following : 1. The present counseling program can be useful in facilitating the task of ( the teachers and trainers ) in learning swimming for the future , and the importance of the counseling programs besides the educational programs of swimming . 2. The need to select counseling pearson of those with psychological- specialization or the experienced of psychological of counseling in order to apply the counseling programs.