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The effect of school games on aggression in 10-14 year old intellectually disabled girls

Lila Sabaghian Rad and Farzaneh Fathi

The purpose of the present research was to examine the effect of school games on physical, relational, and verbal aggression in 10-14 year old intellectually disabled girls. The population of this survey consisted of 100 intellectually disabled 10-14 year old girls of whom 80 were randomly selected and assigned to an experimental group and a control group. Data were collected using the questionnaire and were analyzed in SPSS using independent and dependent t-tests. The pretest results showed that there were no significant difference between the groups. A significant difference was observed between the pretest and posttest scores of the experimental group in overall aggression, physical aggression, relational aggression, and verbal aggression (P < 0.05).The results of dependent t-test indicated that playing school games significantly improved aggression in the experimental group, whereas no significant differences were observed in the control group.