Effects of swimming training on stress levels of students ages 11-13

The purpose of this research, the 11-13 age group of 8-week swimming training program is to determine the effect on students' stress levels. To this end, 60 students at a private school located in Sakarya Sahin participated in the study voluntarily. Students participating in the study were divided into two groups and each group was composed of 30 students. Experimental and control groups of students in the pre-test and post-test Leighton (1989) Stress Scale developed by II survey has been implemented. After preliminary testing, the experimental group students 8 weeks for two hours two days a week and 2' were subjected to a swimming training program. Recent tests were administered to both groups at the end of the swimming training program. The data obtained in studies conducted with an experimental design method were analyzed with SPSS statistical analysis. The level of significance was taken as 0.05. Transferring the collected data obtained from the survey has been administered primarily SPSS descriptive statistics to indicate the socio-demographic characteristics. Experimental and control groups pre-test results and post-test results of different groups (experimental group pre-test x control group pre-test / experimental group post-test x control group post-test) in independent groups for comparing t test was used. Latest test results of the experimental and control groups to compare with pre-test results in the same group (experimental pre-test post-test experimental x / x control pre-test post-test control), paired t test was used. As a result, the experimental group pretest to measure stress levels (39.03 ± 9.21) and posttest (31.20 ± 4.06) were statistically significant difference between the results. The control group pre-test to measure the stress level (36.43 ± 8.13) and final test (40.56 ± 9.21), while there was no significant difference between the results statistically. The research results of the implementation of the 11-13 age group swimming education programs shows that the reduction of stress levels affect students positively.