Author(s)

Guan Wang ¹

Affiliation(s)

¹ Physical Science College, Changsha Normal University, Changsha, Hunan, 410000, China

Corresponding Author

Guan Wang

ABSTRACT

With the rapid development of the economy, people’s pace of life has become faster and faster, and they are more eager for a higher level of economic life. This has led to a large number of surplus rural labor entering cities, and they have started to work outside. At the same time, it has also led to a large number of left behind children in rural areas. They are at a critical juncture in their life development, as a result of long-term lack of family affection, lack of parental care and education, many left behind children have varying degrees of mental health problems. The experiments involved in this paper show that although badminton, aerobics, basketball and volleyball and other sports have different positive effects, they can indeed alleviate depression, fear, mental disorders and sleep and other adverse conditions.

KEYWORDS

Rural Left Behind Children, Mental Health, Different Sports, Intervention Effect

CITE THIS PAPER

Guan Wang, Empirical Study on the Effects of Different Exercise Interventions on the Mental Health of Rural Left Behind Children. Applied & Educational Psychology (2023) Vol. 4: 7-14. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/appep.2023.040402.

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