Effects of combined exercise therapy on positive self-evaluation and emotional regulation of children: An analysis based on randomized controlled trial

Abstract

Nowadays, more and more people are aware of the importance of children education. However, mental health education of children has not received enough attention. This paper aims to disclose the effects of combined exercise therapy on positive self-evaluation or emotional regulation of children. Based on randomized controlled trial (RCT), controlled experiments were carried out among children from two public kindergartens. The combined exercise therapy was applied to the experimental group only. The effects of positive self-evaluation and emotional regulation of the subjects were tested before and after the experiments, with the aid of questionnaires. The results show that the children in the experimental group had much higher scores of positive emotions and much lower scores of negative emotions than those in the control group; the overall self-evaluations of the children in the control group were significantly lower than those of the experimental group. The research results provide an important reference for mental health education for children.