The effect of three months swimming training on 12-15 year old non-athlete boy students' self-confidence scale

The present research is of semi-empirical type and scrutinizes the effects of three months swimming training on 12-15 year old non-athlete boy students' self-confidence scale. Statistical society includes 8160, 12-15 year old non-athlete boy students of Babol schools. Random sampling has been used in order to select statistical samples. These statistical samples are divided into empirical and control groups that are 25 people each. Bernreuter Personality Inventory questionnaire (B.P.I) (1935) is used for collecting information. Aside from self-confidence, this questionnaire measures five other personal characteristics simultaneously. Two groups answered this questionnaire in two stages: In the first stage, researcher's purpose was to specify the reason why there's no preliminary difference between empirical and control groups in terms of their self-confidence mean value (pretest). In the second stage, the purpose was to determine the two groups' self-confidence scale after three months swimming training via the empirical group and to specify the effects of these exercises on the empirical group's self-confidence. Results have been calculated via the T-test using software SPSS19 ( p
0.05). results obtained show that considering the effective role of environment in self-confidence and while knowing the important role of self-confidence when facing life pressures, having all the people participate in physical activities and sports increases the self-confidence scale and this in turn helps them take a prosperous step toward a happy and blissful life in terms of their behavior and performance.

swimming, self-confidence, non-athlete boy