21 THE EFFECT OF BASKETBALL PHYSICAL TRAINING IN PHYSICAL EDUCATION ON ALLEVIATING COLLEGE STUDENTS’ PSYCHOLOGICAL ANXIETY
Authors: Shi Wei 
Published: February 2025

Abstract

Background
At present, mental health problems have become the main influencing factors affecting the life and study of college students. Psychological anxiety, as a common psychological problem, has had an adverse effect on students’ learning, life and social adaptability. Traditional mental health treatment methods are mostly based on psychological counseling and drug therapy. However, sports, as a non-drug intervention method, have the advantages of low cost and easy implementation in relieving students’ psychology, so it has received widespread attention. Basketball is widely loved by college students because of its moderate intensity and strong fun. Therefore, this study aims to explore the effect of basketball physical training on relieving college students’ psychological anxiety and provide new reference directions for mental health intervention in physical education teaching.

Methods
The study selected 60 college students with psychological anxiety in a certain university, and used the Self-Rating Anxiety Scale (SAS) to screen the psychological anxiety of college students, and included students with scores above 50 points in the study. All subjects were randomly divided into an experimental group and a control group, with 30 people in each group. The experimental group received special basketball physical training intervention, while the control group only participated in regular sports activities and did not receive special basketball physical training intervention. The study used the SAS scale to evaluate the psychological anxiety levels of the experimental group and the control group, and tested their psychological anxiety in different cycles of sports intervention. At the same time, the emotional changes and sports participation of the two groups of students during the training process were observed.

Results
The study compared the SAS assessment results of the two groups of patients and analyzed the scale scores of college students under exercise intervention at different periods, as shown in Table 1. Can be seen from Table 1, under different periods of intervention, when the intervention period was 12 weeks, the subject’s scale score was the lowest at only 40.5±3.1, which shows that the psychological anxiety of the subject has been significantly improved after the exercise intervention. At the same time, the scale score of the control group subjects after 12 weeks of exercise intervention was 47.8±3.4, which also shows that exercise intervention can improve the psychological anxiety of college students, but its effect is not as obvious as basketball intervention.

Discussion
Research results show that basketball physical training can effectively alleviate the psychological anxiety of college students. Although the results of the study can show that basketball physical training has a significant effect on alleviating psychological anxiety among college students, the sample size of the current study is small and single. Therefore, in subsequent studies, more different types of people need to be studied, and at the same time Increasing the duration of exercise intervention highlights the applicability of the study.