The Development of an Exercise Program Using Muay Thai arts to Improve Upon life Skills Regarding Emotional Coping of Upper Elementary Students
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The propose of this research was to develop an exercise program using Muay Thai arts to improve upon life skills regarding emotional coping of upper elementary students. Thesamples in the research included 64 elementary school students aged 10-12 years, divided into 32 experimental groups and 32 control groups. Acquisition of samples was done using stratified sampling. The research investigated, analyzed and synthesized theory and content related to life skills regarding emotional coping, principles of exercise, physical development and Muay Thai arts from related literature and research papers to develop exercise programs using Muay Thai arts. The method was reviewed and verified by 5 experts; sports scientists, physical education teachers, childhood teachers and psychologists, and then analyzed using the Index of Item Objective Congruence (I.O.C) method. The researcher applied the exercise program with the experimental group for 8 weeks, 3 times a week, 60 minutes each and tested life skills regarding emotional coping both before and after the experiment. The results were analyzed using average value, standard deviation and t-test.
The research found that
The exercise program were developed by the researcher base on the study of theory and research papers related to life skills regarding emotional coping, principles of exercise, physical development and Muay Thai arts which consists of 5 activities; movement of mind and body, Muay Thai dance, individual Muay Thai weapon, dual Muay Thai weapon and muscle relaxation activities. There are 24 exercise posts, 4 steps, the content validity was checked be relevant expert by determining the consistency index from 0.5-1.0 and the exercise program had an aggregate IOC of .94. It was found that, after participating in exercise program, the experimental group had improved life skills regarding emotional coping base on comparison of test results before and after the experiment and between the experimental groups and the control groups at .05 levels of significance.
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