Creativity in Recreational Figure Roller-Skating: A Pilot Study on the Psychological Benefits in School-Age Girls

Juan Manuel García-Ceberino, Sebastián Feu (), María Gracia Gamero and Santos Villafaina
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Juan Manuel García-Ceberino: Facultad de Educación y Psicología, Universidad de Extremadura, 06006 Badajoz, Spain
Sebastián Feu: Facultad de Educación y Psicología, Universidad de Extremadura, 06006 Badajoz, Spain
María Gracia Gamero: Optimization of Training and Sports Performance Research Group (GOERD), University of Extremadura, 10003 Cáceres, Spain
Santos Villafaina: Facultad de Ciencias del Deporte, Universidad de Extremadura, 10003 Cáceres, Spain

IJERPH, 2022, vol. 19, issue 18, 1-10

Abstract: Creative strategies allow students to feel ownership of their learning, fostering interest and motivation towards sports and educational contexts. This study aimed to compare different psychological variables after applying creative and traditional sessions of recreational figure roller-skating. Twelve school-age female skaters (9.00 ± 1.09 years old) participated in this pilot study. They performed two sessions: (1) a creative session (where participants created their own choreography) and (2) a traditional session (where participants followed the choreography created by the sports professional). In the creative session, participants created their choreographies without instructions. The basic psychological needs scale, the measure of intentionality to be physically active (sports adherence) and the games and emotions scale were administered after each session. The creative intervention led to a higher satisfaction of the needs of perceived competence ( p -value = 0.04; effect size = 0.59), social relationships ( p -value = 0.03; effect size = 0.62) and adherence to figure roller-skating ( p -value = 0.02; effect size = 0.69), compared to the traditional intervention in female skaters. Participants showed significantly more humor and less surprise in the creative session than in the traditional session. This greater satisfaction with perceived competence and social relationships could translate into greater adherence to sports.

Keywords: basic psychological need; creative intervention; emotion; skater; sports adherence (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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