Field : Sport Psychology Type : Research Article

Year 2016, Volume 4 (Special Issue 2), 631 - 638, 01.09.2016

Ünal Türkçapar Mehmet Günay

Abstract

Examination of Swimming Exercises’ Effects on Disabled Individuals’ Life Satisfaction Levels

Abstract

This research was done to determine how disabled individuals’, who were let doing swimming exercise, life satisfactions get shaped depend on gender, age and obstacle situation variance. With this aim there were 24 female and 26 male, whose ages differ 16 and 21 ± 3, 54 totally 50 people were included to the study. For the research permission was taken from both participants and their families that they were volunteers for it. To the participants there was 6 weeks swimming exercise program (3 days in a week for one hour) applied. In the beginning and the end of the program as pretest and posttest for determining the participants’ life satisfaction levels the Life Satisfaction Scale Form was applied. In the result of the research while there was not any statistically difference observed (p>0,05) in the disabled individuals’ life satisfaction levels depend on age, there was a statistically meaningful difference determined in the life satisfaction levels of disabled individuals (p<0,05). According to this it can be sad that swimming exercises is a positive activity that positively affects especially ladies’ life satisfaction levels. 

Keywords

Disabled, swimming, life satisfaction, sport

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