The role of extra-curricular sports activities in developing social skills and limiting aggressive behavior among secondary school students (15- 18 years(

Abstract

The study aims to know the differences in social skills and aggressive behavior between pupils practicing extra-athletic physical activities and pupils practicing physical sports class activities. The researcher followed the descriptive approach, and the research sample included (198) male and female students in the secondary phase distributed equally in two samples according to the nature of the activity, It was deliberately selected, and the researcher used two measures: The aggressive behavior scale by Mohammed Hassan Allaoui, and the social skills scale by Ronald Reggio. This study resulted in the presence of statistically significant differences in social skills between pupils practicing extra-athletic physical activities and pupils practicing physical sports class activities, And the absence of differences in the aggressive behavior between pupils practicing extra-athletic physical activities and pupils practicing class-sports physical activities.