TITLE:
Sport Training to Promote Physical and Mental Health of Adolescents in the New Normality Post Covid-19
AUTHORS:
Luis Guillermo Hernández-Tapia, Leticia Ondina-Muñoz, Diana Cecilia Tapia-Pancardo
KEYWORDS:
Sport Training, Physical and Mental Health, Adolescents, New Normality
JOURNAL NAME:
Psychology,
Vol.14 No.10,
October
23,
2023
ABSTRACT: Introduction: Today’s adolescents belong to the digital era,
immersed in apps, electronic games, social networks; these facts led to extreme
negative outcomes such as sedentarism,
overweight, obesity, diabetes, behavior troubles. This last one includes
isolation, lack of verbal communication, absence of solidarity, lack of
empathy, impaired management of emotions, conducing to deterioration of family
and social relationships, as well as impaired physical and mental health. The
aim was to identify the influence of sport activity in adolescents to promote
physical and mental health in the new normality post Covid-19. Method: The research is qualitative with phenomenological method, through which reality
portraits were obtained, allowing to collect and identify participant’s features.
Participants were 3 men and 1 woman, beginners and senior students from nursing
and sports science schools, aged 22 to 24 years. Specific exercises according to physical abilities of each one were
drove, focused in the philosophy of martial arts that include self-care. Data were analyzed according to De
Souza Minayo. Original speeches from participants were maintained,
narrative and perspectives on their experiences within training, rigor to reach
proposed goals and support in their daily lives. Results: Three
categories emerged. Category 1. Martial arts promote values in the
trainee, with sub-categories: 1.1 They represent a life style of
honorability and respect. 1.2 They promote a healthier physical and
mental person. 1.3 They encourage values applied to their daily lives. Category
2. Martial arts favorably impact in the life of the trainee, with sub-categories
2.1 They represent a strategy to face stress. 2.2 They promote
resilience facing difficult events. Category 3. Martial arts as a
holistic support after the pandemic, with sub-categories 3.1 They
grant physical, mental and spiritual strength to trainee. 3.2 They
encourage tolerance and empathy to family members. Conclusion: Modeling
a physical, psychological, and spiritual system within oriental martial arts
setting promotes holistic well-being in adolescents, which favors physical, cognitive-behavioral, emotional
and sensorial development among adolescents, as well as diminishing public
health problems arising in this step of life after the pandemic.