Research on Women's Sports

The effectiveness of brain breaks on students' academic achievement: The moderating role of parental support

Document Type : Original Article

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Faculty of Semnan University

10.22089/rws.2025.17583.1047
Abstract
The purpose of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of brain breaks on the academic progress and self-efficacy of elementary school students with parental support. The current research was semi-experimental with a pre-test and post-test design with a control group. Its statistical population includes all female students studying in the fourth, fifth and sixth grades of Semnan city in the academic year of 2023-2024. By using cluster random sampling method, 192 students who had weak learning in mathematics, science and Farsi courses were selected as the research sample and after conducting the pre-test, they were divided into two intervention groups and one control group by simple random method. became To collect data, the brain rest physical activities book, educational achievement index, self-efficacy questionnaire of children and adolescents of Morris (2001) and parental support scale of Fall and Roberts (2012) were used. The intervention groups practiced for 4 months, twice a day and 3 times a week according to the training method, so that the first intervention group had parental support and the second intervention group had no parental support, while the control group did not receive any intervention and in At the end of the sixteenth week, a post-test was taken from all three groups. The data were evaluated using analysis of covariance test. Data analysis showed that after the intervention (brain rest) on academic achievement with parental support and without parental support on academic achievement

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Research on Women's Sports
Volume 1, Issue 4 - Serial Number 4
January 2025
Pages 425-448

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