Building a model of managing emotions through sports

Abstract

The present study aims to become in educational tool management a general social problem among teenagers as it’s the management of experienced emotions during the practice of sports and leisure activities. The SOS Children's Village Association and the Rafa Nadal Foundation, look for how to drive their promotion ideals through the creation of a program named Integration and Sports, the scene where the research is conducted. It’s been boys and girls from 10 to 16 years old (in a total of 20 people) at risk social exclusion who have taken part in this mentioned program. The method has turned around the “case of study”, a mirror example, which has tried to discover how children, for themselves, govern the emotional flow generated in the brain by external stimuli, which causes primary emotions as repelling attacks with kicks, punches, verbal uncultured, anxiety…The results define an educative model of emotions self-management based in three types of skills: cognitive, dialogical and preventive- distractions.

Keywords

• Emociones
• sentimientos
• habilidades de gestión
• deporte
• educación