Abstract

GUALOTUNA BEGAY, Ludwin Alexander  and  SANDOVAL JARAMILLO, María Lorena. Influence of a recreational program in reducing anxiety in high school students. Rev Podium [online]. 2022, vol.17, n.2, pp. 513-526.  Epub Aug 06, 2022. ISSN 1996-2452.

Recreational activities have numerous positive effects on human behavior, this can favor relevant psychological indicators such as perceived anxiety. In this sense, the purpose of the research was to determine how a recreational program influences the reduction of anxiety levels in high school students. The research is descriptive-explanatory, correlational; 30 high school students are intentionally diagnosed through the Beck test, before and after implementing a recreational proposal for eight weeks. The percentages of anxiety decreased as the intervention proposal was implemented, both in general and in the analysis by gender, as the decrease was significant (p=0.003). The present study shows that recreational activities can contribute to the reduction of anxiety in high school adolescents, both for the female gender and for the male gender. Three future actions are recommended: extend the implementation time of the intervention proposal, carry out studies by gender and direct future research at a quasi-experimental level.

Keywords : Recreational activities; Anxiety; High school student..

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