The impact of competitive and non-competitive activities on children’s aggression

Introduction: Regarding to the importance of children and adolescents’ aggression in the prediction of problems over the psychosocial adjustments in future, the current study was conducted in order to compare the impact of competitive and noncompetitive activities on the aggression of children aged 79 and 1012 years. Materials and Methods: The statistical community of this clinical trial consists of 2200 boy students of elementary schools in Khalil Abad city through the academic years of 20152016. At first, 4 elementary schools were randomly chosen, and 200 students were divided into two competitive and noncompetitive groups randomly. The aggression questionnaire for the child aged 711 years was given as a pre-test to the participants in the school (teachers’ form). The duration of the exercise plan was 12 weeks (twice a week). At the end of the intervention, a post-test was conducted on the groups. The data were analyzed using the multivariate covariance test. Results: The results showed that upon deleting the impact of pretest of aggression score, the effect of competitive noncompetitive group with the age group on the post-test scores was not significant (P= 0.11 and f (1, 99)=2.47). Conclusion: Based on the results of this study, it seems that competitive or noncompetitive activities do not have various effects on the aggression of students.