THE EFFECTIVENESS OF RECREATIONAL SPORTS ACTIVITIES IN THE METHOD OF COLLECTIVE COMPETITION IN A NUMBER OF MOTOR ABILITIES AND SOCIAL INTERACTION FOR MIDDLE SCHOOL STUDENTS IN RAMADI REGION

Abstract

The field of sports recreation and its methods is an important element of sports sociology for self-realization, interaction with others, developing tendencies, and getting rid of many life pressures, whether mental, psychological, or social, as the individual represents a set of behaviors within a group of individuals, and these behaviors are affected by the group, as well as how the group may affect individual behavior. The research aims to identify the effectiveness of recreational sports activities in a number of motor abilities and social interaction for middle school students in Ramadi district. The experimental approach was used to design the two groups equal in number and equivalent research variables dependent, and the experiment was applied to a sample of students of the fourth stage of Al-Mughira bin Division Preparatory School for Boys in Ramadi district, which was deliberately chosen to provide appropriate conditions, and their number is 24 students, divided into two groups in a random manner. The research took (6) weeks at a rate of two units per week, and the units included a set of recreational sports activities in a collective competition style in line with the skills learned in basketball, volleyball, and handball games. And five football, and after the completion of the research experiment, a number of results were reached, the most important of which is that both methodology to the control group and experimental group have brought about a development in motor abilities and social interaction, and that the experimental group that applied recreational activities in the manner of collective competition has outperformed the traditional approach followed in motor abilities and social interaction, and the results showed that recreational activities in the style of collective competition have increased the enthusiasm of students and their positive feelings towards the application of exercises.