Rooyesh-e- Ravanshenasi Journal(RRJ)

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Self-esteem is an important aspect consistent in all stages of life that plays a role in emotional, social and psychological compliance. And this issue is more important at the time of old age, particularly in mental health. So, The aim of this study is to investigate the effect of brain gym exercises on Self- esteem in elderly.The following papers are an empirical study and the study sample included all elderly people in the Elderly Nursing Homes in Sari city. The sampling method of this research it was the kind of available. For this purpose, 30 people in their elderly were selected and randomly divided into two groups of 15, according to inclusion and exclusion criteria. The empirical group performed brain gym exercises, which have been exclusively designed to improve Self- esteem, in 8 sessions of 30 minutes. In order to measure self-esteem of participants in the pre-test and post-test was used from Rosenberg Self-esteem Scale. Covariance test was used to analyze the data. Concludingly, it was demonstrated that by controlling the pretest scores, there is a significant difference between Self-esteem of the control and empirical group. The findings of this survey confirmed the effectiveness brain exercise on cognitive factors such as self-esteem in the elderly.

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The present study aimed at investigating the effect of mental kinestick imagery on athletic confidence. The population of this quasi-experimental study comprised the whole amateur basketball players. Available sampling was used as the instrument, such that 30 physical education students from Islamic Azad University of Kermanshah volunteered to participate in this study. They were classified into two groups of kinestick imagery and control, using matching scores method in Revised Hall and Martin’s (1997) questionnaire. Further, Willie and Knight’s (2002) scale of athletic confidence was used to measure participants’ athletic confidence in pre- and post-test. The experimental group did six sessions of thirty-minute kinestick imagery exercise and pay lay-up shot, while the control group only pay lay-up shot. With controlling the pre-test scores,  The results indicated a statistically significant difference between the two groups in post test of athletic confidence scores. The implication of this study is the impact that mental mental  kinestick  imagery has on improving athletic confidence in athletes.

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Given the significance of balance in maintaining body posture and exercising complex sports skills, the aim of this study was to investigate the impact of brain gym on static and dynamic balance of non-athlete female students. To this end, 24 non-athlete female students from University of Kharazmi voluntarily participated in this study, and were randomly divided into experimental and control groups. The experimental group performed brain gym exercises, which were specifically designed to improve their body balance, for 8 sessions of 30 minutes each. The control group underwent a series of flexibility and stretching exercises, deemed not to impact their balance. The number of sessions and the time devoted to each session was the same as the treatment the experimental group went through. In order to measure the static and dynamic balance of the participants in the pre- and post-test, the Stork and Star tests were administered. ANCOVA was used to analyze the data. The results indicated that controlling the pre-test scores, there was a statistically significant difference in the static and dynamic balance between the control and the experimental groups, suggesting that brain gym has a positive impact on static and dynamic balance. It then follows that due to the ease of implementation of brain gym exercises, coaches and physical education teachers can use brain gym in order to improve balance in their students.