https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/J2HA

doi no.: 05-2016-44975451, DOI Link :: https://doi-ds.org/doilink/06.2021-18758879/IJPESAS/V11/I2/A23

AFFILIATIONS:

1. PhD Student, Department of Physical Education and Sport Sciences, Isfahan (Khorasgan) Branch, Islamic Azad University, Isfahan, Iran , Fakhroldin.asadi@yahoo.com
2. Associate Professor, Department of Physical Education and Sport Sciences, Isfahan (Khorasgan) Branch, Islamic Azad University, Isfahan, Iran , drmnamazi@yahoo.com
3.  Associate Professor, 3Department of Physical Education and Sport Sciences, Isfahan (Khorasgan) Branch, Islamic Azad University, Isfahan, Iran , Rokhsareh.badami@gmail.com

The study aims to investigate the effect of adaptive local indigenous games on aggression in educable mentally retarded people. The Experimental and field study was a quasi-experimental. The statistical population of this research comprised girls and boys with mental disabilities who are studying in exceptional children's primary schools in Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari province in the academic year of 1998-99. Among them, 40 people, whose IQ was equal to 50 to 70 in the Raven IQ test, were randomly chosen as the sample. The analysis tools of the study were the aggression questionnaire of Bahrami et al. (2008), the Wineland Adaptive Behavior Questionnaire, and the Henderson and Sagden (1992) Children's Motion Assessment Test (M-ABC). Shapiro-Wilk test, Levin test, Pearson correlation coefficient and univariate covariance analysis were used to analyze the data.It should be noted that all steps of data analysis were implemented using SPSS software version 23 at a significance level of 0.05.The results revealed that a course of adaptive local indigenous games had a significant effect on the aggression of educable mentally retarded children.And has improved aggression in educable mentally retarded children.According to the results, local indigenous games can be practiced to improve the aggression of educable mentally retarded children.

Keywords: Indigenous and local games, aggression, mentally retarded people, Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari.

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