The Influence of the Sporting Game (Basketball) on the General Education of Children Aged 9–11

The sporting game as the main branch of the Physical Education (PE) is activity-oriented to achieve motive performance as well as to develop positive behaviour and personality traits. The present study emphasizes the main influences on the 9-11-year-old children personality and behaviour through practicing sporting games. We initiated the applying of a sport program with instruction stages, certain objectives and methods, which aims to acquiring ethical conduct, confronting and managing different situations of success and failure, collaborating, communicating and developing the fair-play spirit. The program are applied to a number of 20 children, boys aged 9-11 years old, who are practicing basketball twice a week. The team sporting game leaves a special imprint on children's personality and will by requiring self-control and emotion-control in the team rivalry, the desire to win and the efficient solving of the game situations through initiative, cooperation and suitable motive actions.