Impact of hybrid sports teaching model on student anxiety

Abstract

Background

The surge in psychological anxiety among students has become a common and important problem in the field of education, which has a negative impact on students’ study and life. In order to explore an effective way to relieve students’ psychological anxiety, the effect of online and offline mixed physical education model innovation on students’ psychological anxiety was studied.

Subjects and Methods

In this study, 100 college students with psychological anxiety were selected as the experimental group, and they were taught by the online and offline mixed physical education model. Another 100 college students were selected as the control group, and they were taught by the traditional physical education model. Hamilton Anxiety Rating Scale (HARS) was used to evaluate the psychological anxiety of the two groups of students, once a semester, a total of two semesters.

Results

The average anxiety score at the end of the first semester was 15 in the experimental group and 18 in the control group. At the end of the second semester, the mean anxiety score was 12 for the experimental group and 20 for the control group. The anxiety of the experimental group was significantly lower than that of the control group.

Conclusions

The blended online and offline physical education teaching model can provide a more flexible learning environment, increase students’ participation and enthusiasm, and thus reduce students’ psychological stress and anxiety. Therefore, schools should actively promote and apply this teaching model to provide better mental health support for students.