INHIBITING EFFECT OF SPORTS THERAPY ON DEPRESSION

Abstract

Under the rapid pace of life and intense competition, depression has become a leading mental illness in modern society, exerting a severe negative effect on life and health. Sports is an important way to alleviate depression and improve psychological adaptation. Therefore, this paper aims to verify the inhibition of sports therapy on depression. A total of 100 students were selected from a university in northern China’s Hebei Province, and subjected to a one-semester intervention treatment with yoga. Taking this sports item as the only independent variable, the depression states of the students in the test group and the control group were evaluated before and after the treatment, against the Zung Self-Rating Anxiety Scale (SAS) and Self-Rating Depression Scale (SDS). The results show that the mean scores of SAS and SDS for the test group plunged deeply through the treatment, while those for the control group had no significant changes. The research results confirm that sports therapy inhibits depression, and highlight the necessity to treat depressed college students with this therapy.