Sports effect on depression level of elementary school students

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to analyze sports and exercises effects on depression levels of elementary school students. Theresearch group formed a total of 203 students, including 104 students who exercise (amateur athletes, playing in schoolteams, etc.) The Depression Scale for Children (CDS) and Beck Depression Scale was used as a data collection tool in thestudy. The applicability of parametric or nonparametric tests was examined by comparing the normal distribution of valuesand variance equality when analyzing data to measure depression level of subjects. The normal distribution fitness test forthe data was tested using the Kolmogorov-Smirnov test, again using the Levene’ test for variance homogeneity. In order toapply the parametric tests, both normal distribution suitability and variance homogeneity are required. Non-normaldistribution of data or homogeneous variance requires using nonparametric tests. One-way ANOVA test for more than twogroup of parametric tests and two independent T-tests for two independent groups were used for the analysis of the data asa result of Kolmogorov-Smirnov test and Levene’ test. The difference between the two independent sample T-test results fordetermining whether the depression scores of the performing and non-performing individuals are different is P = 0.039