Greek traditional dances and quality of old people's life
| Autor: | Eirini Argiriadou, Christina S. Papaioannou, Fotios Mavrovouniotis |
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| Rok vydání: | 2010 |
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Complementary and Manual Therapy medicine.medical_specialty Psychometrics Culture Statistics as Topic Poison control Physical Therapy Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation Anxiety Affect (psychology) Quality of life Heart Rate Adaptation Psychological Injury prevention Heart rate medicine Health Status Indicators Humans Aerobic exercise Dancing Exercise Life Style Fatigue Aged Aged 80 and over Greece Rehabilitation Age Factors Middle Aged Control Groups Affect Complementary and alternative medicine Quality of Life Physical therapy Female medicine.symptom Psychology Stress Psychological Clinical psychology |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Bodywork and Movement Therapies. 14:209-218 |
| ISSN: | 1360-8592 |
| Popis: | The aim of the present study was to examine the effect of Greek traditional dances on the improvement of old people's quality of life. A hundred and eleven subjects (75 women and 36 men) 60-91 years old, were divided into an experimental group (n=76) which participated in Greek traditional dances and a control group (n=35) which was discussing and watching television, both for 1h. The Subjective Exercise Experiences Scale [McAuley, E., Courneya, K., 1994. The Subjective Exercise Experiences Scale (SEES): development and preliminary validation. Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology 16, 163-177] was used to measure positive well-being, psychological distress, and fatigue and the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory [Spielberger, C.D., Gorsuch, R., Lushene, R., 1970. Manual for the State-trait Anxiety Inventory. Consulting Psychologists, Palo Alto] to measure state and trait anxiety respectively. Correlational analyses, between the various measures taken postdance, showed that the overall set of relations between the SEES subscales and the SAI-Y1 subscale supports the criterion-related validity of this measure of exercise-induced psychological responses. The independent groups t-tests showed that the control group in comparison to experimental group, at rest as well as on the second measurement, has significantly higher levels of state anxiety (t=-4.45, p |
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