جستجوی مقالات مرتبط با کلیدواژه "disabled athlete" در نشریات گروه "پزشکی"

The aim of this study was to compare the quality of life and life satisfaction, self-esteem and social development of disabled athletes and non-athletes with disabilities. Regular physical activity and exercise are of great importance for health and functioning of people with disabilities.
This is a Causal-comparative study. Convenience sampling was used to recruit the participants. The participants were selected from among disabled athletes and non-athletes with disabilities. Research Instruments were a version of S. Coopersmith's (1967) Self-Esteem Inventory, and Wahtsman Social Development questionnaire and Satisfaction with Life Scale (SWLS; Diener et al., 1985). T-test for independent groups and multivariate analysis of variance were used to analyze the data.
The results showed a significant difference between athletes and non-athletes with disabilities in terms of quality of life and life satisfaction, self-esteem and social development, (0.001), (0.002), (0.001), (0.001). In other words, quality of life and life satisfaction, self-esteem and social development of disabled athletes is higher than non-athletes with disabilities. From Among the variables quality of life, self-esteem, social development, the variable vitality, general self-esteem and responsibility had the highest scores in comparison to other types.
Sports and physical activity can enhance self-esteem, social development, quality of life and life satisfaction among disabled athletes.

The aim of this research was to compare the body image between disabled athletes with disabled and non-disabled non- athletes. In this cross sectional and comparative study, fifty disabled athletes from the handicapped sports club, fifty disabled non athletes from Kahrizak disabled rest house and fifty non athlete healthy persons from governmental administrations were selected randomly by classified clustered method and their body image were compared. Data collection tools included a personal information questionnaire and a physical self description questionnaire (PSDQ) which included 11 sub-scales such as power, endurance, coordination, general health, flexibility, self-esteem, athletic competence, fat, body appearance, body activity and the global physical. The statistical procedures used in this study comprised one way ANOVA and the Newman-keuls test. Body image of disabled athletes in the sub-scales of power, endurance, coordination, flexibility, self-esteem, athletic competence, body activity were higher than disabled and non-disabled individuals who were not athletes (P&le0.001). In addition the sub-scales of the body fat (P=0.012), body appearance (P=0.002) and general health (P=0.001), the results showed that a higher significance for the disabled athletes, however, there wasn’t significant difference for the non-disabled athletes. Thus the result showed that the attitude of the disabled and non-disabled individual in due to their continuous physical activity in that the disabled athletes have got better body images as compared to the disabled and non-disabled individual who have not physical activity.