Investigation of the effects of six-weeks of regular table tennis education on attention levels of primary school children

Abstract

Attention deficit is one of the child ailments that most parents worry about. To shed light on this problem, the aim of this survey is to investigate the effects of 6-weeks regular table tennis education on the attention levels of school children. The research was carried out on 11 elementary school students (9.82 ± 2.23) who have never got table tennis education before. These children trained by basic table tennis exercises for 6-weeks, two days a week. Bourdon Attention Test, developed by Bourdon (1955), was used before and 6-weeks after starting table tennis training to determine children's attention levels. In order to measure the level of attention, the number of letters that were marked incorrectly and the number of letters not marked were counted. These data were analyzed with paired sample t test. As a result, it was found that 6-weeks of regular table tennis exercises significantly affected the number of not marked characters and affected the level of attention positively (p < 0.05). It was also found that the gender of the children and the type of school in which they were educated had no effect on this result.

Keywords: Attention, attention deficit, children attention, table tennis benefits.

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