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Many people nowadays believe that combat sports and especially boxing, promote violence and aggressiveness. The mass media have played a major role in shaping the perception that the practice of martial arts in fact, attracts violent individuals or promotes aggressiveness especially in young people. Due to the conflicting nature of these kinds of sports, there have always been conflicting views regarding their influence on young people's behavior. The question is whether and to what extent combat sports can affect the rate of aggression among the young. The purpose of the present research is to evaluate the anger level as an element of aggression among boxing athletes and other sportsmen. The results did not indicate any difference between boxers and other sports athletes in terms of aggressiveness. Yet, research suggests there's significant deviation with regards to stress predisposition, which then correlates with some parts of aggressiveness. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The harmonious and correct physical development is an important objective of physical education and sport, and it is considering that during the childhood we can exert favourable influence on growth and body development. The statistics are alarming about the children overweight and obesity. We proposed and we managed to determine the loss of weight and change the body mass index of overweight and obese children from the kindergarten Ag. Dometios Lefkosia Cyprus, who participated into an experiment with supplementary moving games, and also to awareness their parents concerning the importance of sport, healthy lifestyle, and the systematic habit of movement. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Restrictions associated with the COVID-19 pandemic had forced American college students to significantly reduce their daily energy expenditure and increase their sedentary behaviors, thus presumably increasing mental health symptoms, decreasing physical activity levels, and enhancing the promotion of unhealthy eating habits. This study aimed to explore the correlations between mental health symptoms, physical activity levels, and body composition in college students in the years following the pandemic, focusing on the lingering effects of lockdown measures. American college students completed pre-existing, well-validated surveys for both mental health (Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale) and physical activity (International Physical Activity Questionnaire-Long Form). Body composition was assessed in person with the use of an Inbody 570 device. Of the 90 American college students ( M age = 22.52 ± 4.54, 50 females) who participated in this study, depressive and anxious symptom scores consistent with heightened symptomatology were reported by 58% of the participants ( N = 52), moderate borderline symptomatology by 17% ( N = 15), and asymptomatology by 25% ( N = 23). In regard to physical activity, 79% ( N = 71) of the students were highly physically active, 18% ( N = 16) were moderately active, and 3% ( N = 3) reported low levels of physical activity. Additionally, 46% ( N = 41) of the students maintained an unhealthy body fat percentage based on the World Health Organization recommendations. Strong, significant relationships were found between anxiety and depression symptomatology and body fat percentage (positive correlation, p = 0.003) and between anxiety and depression symptomatology and skeletal muscle mass (negative correlation, p = 0.015), with said symptomatology increasing with added body fat and decreasing with added skeletal muscle mass. The COVID-19 pandemic lockdown restrictions affected American college students through an increase in mental health symptomatology and a deterioration in overall body composition.