Effect of dance-sport on physical-psychological health of university students
- VernacularTitle:体育舞蹈对大学生身心健康的影响
- Author:
Xiaoxin LI
;
Xuan YAO
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- From:
Chinese Journal of Tissue Engineering Research
2005;9(40):190-192
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
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Abstract:
BACKGROUND: Dance-sport is a newly emerging sport item, integrating sport with music and dance. It not only develops physical diathesis and sport skills, but also actively affects psychological health of university students.OBJECTIVE: To analyze and observe the changes in psychological health, physical diathesis and musical cultivation after dance-sport training for university students.DESIGN: Cross-section investigation was designed, in which, the students in elective class of dance-sport were taken as objects.SETTING: Department of Physical Education of China University of Mining and Technology.PARTICIPANTS: Totally 116 students were collected from 2001' elective class of dance-sport in China University of Mining and Technology from September 2001 to January 2003. All of receptors selected dance-sport at the first time. Of 120 copies of Symptom Checklist 90 (SCL-90) were provided and 116 of those were returned, in which, 58 students were either male or female, aged averagely 19.7 years.METHODS: Questionnaire: SCL-90 was used to evaluate 9 main outcome measures, named psychological health, somatization, obsessive compulsive (o-c) symptoms, personal relations, depression, anxiety, hostility, phobism,paranoid ideation and metal disorder; in which, 5 grades were adopted,named 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 grades, to represent no, mild, moderate, severe and extremely severe impacts successively. Test: according to stipulated music rate, cardiac rate and music were tested so as to observe the changes in physical diathesis and capacity of musical rhythm understanding. Simultaneously, literatures were looked up on education, psychology and physical education to provide theoretic evidence for this paper. The questionnaire was provided before and after the semester respectively and returned for music test. Test on cardiac rate was performed at the end of semester.MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Comparison among the results of two SCL-90 evaluations, positive number and total average result in receptors and national norm. Result of cardiac rate and music test in receptors.RESULTS: Totally 120 copies were provided, 116 of them were returned and the rate of return was 97%. ① Result of SCL-90: At the end of semester, the results of depression, hostility and positive number of 9 items in the checklist were lower remarkably than those before the semester (P ＜ 0.01-0.05); the results of somatization, interpersonal sensitivity, depression, hostility and total average result were lower remarkably than national norm (P ＜ 0.01-0.05). ② Dance-sport and physical diathesis:Among various dances in sport, the highest, lowest and average cardiac rates were (115-194) times/minute, (114-140) times/minute and (138-169) times/minute successively. The amount of exercise is over moderate level and it benefits cardiac vascular system, functions of heart and lung,endurance, etc. Long-term exercise will be good for the physique. ③ Impacts of dance-sport on music cultivation: Before the class, 93.1% of students did not understand musical rhythm or they understood the rhythm,but it is hard for their steps followed the rhythm. After the course of dance-sport, only 2.5% of students did not understand and follow musical rhythm.CONCLUSION: Dance-sports improves not only psychological health and physical diathesis of students, but also their musical and art cultivation.It is mass sports activity, benefiting the health both physically and mentally.
