The Effect of A Course of Selected Aerobic Exercises on the Mood Disorders in Students Aged

Subject Areas : Educational

قاسم رحیمی ¹ , محمد کارگر ² , اصغر آقایی ³

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Received: 2017-10-17 Accepted : 2017-10-17 Published : 2007-10-23

Keywords: mood disorder, Hypomania, Aerobic training, Depression,

Abstract :

The main purpose of the present research is to investigate the impact of a certain exposure of aerobic exercises and movements on the subjects with modal disorders (depression and mania). The subjects were years old male students in the city of Shiraz in the Province of Fars, Iran. Shiraz is divided into four educational areas. In this investigation, the researcher randomly took four schools each of which is located in one of the four areas. Then, from each school three classes were randomly chosen. Thus, we had classes with subjects who were given the pretest of MMPI personal questionnaires. Then their reactions were evaluated and graded, and those who had answered over average on the test of depression and the test of mania, being exactly , were marked as the trial subjects. Then, from each group with any of the disorders, the researcher chose subjects randomly, and each group of was divided into two subgroups of ten, regarding their prestest scores, to be as the experimental groups were exposed to the treatment, ie, the defined aerobic movements and exercises given in three sessions per week for about two months ( weeks) and each session lasted forty-five minutes and the treatment matched tension of vo max , and of course the control group during the period of treatment did not receive any regular sport program and activity. At the end, the groups were given their post-test to see if there was any important change in their reactions to the test. The results were analyzed by comparing their co-variances which led to the following findings: a. A significant difference was observed in the averge of the testees' scores of the subjects with the depression problem regarding their post and pre reactions. b. There was also a significant difference between the average scores of mania subjects comparing their post-and pre-test scores.