The impact of mobile-assisted swimming applications on intrinsic motivation and fear reduction in aquatic environments among students in the swimming course

Walaa Jumah Alkasasbeh, Thekra Alawamleh, Hasan Aloran, Tamara Farash, Bekir Erhan Orhan · 2024

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Walaa Jumah Alkasasbeh and co-authors test whether a swimming app can lift motivation and calm water fear in students taking a swimming course. Published in 2024, the study enrolled sixty-nine students in a swimming education class. Standard scales measured inner motivation and water fear before and after app assisted practice, and the team checked links with background traits.

Motivation did not move in a statistically firm way. Water fear, though, dropped clearly after the app based practice. Background factors such as gender, study year, and parents' swimming history were explored for patterns. The authors read the result as a narrow but real win: phone guidance may not make students love swimming more, but it can make the water less frightening.

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CREATORWalaa Jumah Alkasasbeh, Thekra Alawamleh, Hasan Aloran, Tamara Farash, Bekir Erhan Orhan
YEAR2024
COLLECTIONPAPERS
FORMATTXT
FILE SIZE32 KB
VERSION1.0
LICENSECC BY 4.0
RIGHTSCC BY
SOURCEEurope PMC

Source: https://europepmc.org/articles/PMC11655226

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