Effects of Taekwondo Training Program on Executive Function Among School Female Adolescents of Bahrain

Abstract

The purpose of the study is to identify effect of taekwondo training program on executive functions among school going female adolescents of Bahrain. This study was conducted on a sample of eighty (N=80) female adolescents, which includes experimental group (n = 40) and control group (n = 40) age of in between 12-16 years from the Indian School of Bahrain was selected as subjects. The data was collected by using an executive skills questionnaire ‘self-made questionnaire on Executive Function skill ’for adolescents of Bahrain (2023) which include the 36 items. Paired sample t-test was applied to assess the differences between experimental group and control group school going female adolescents of Bahrain. For testing the hypotheses, the level of significance was set at 0.05. The result revealed that there is a significant difference in executive function between the experimental group and control group after 6 weeks of taekwondo training program on executive functions among school going female adolescents of Bahrain. It is recommended that a similar study may be repeated on large sample to make the study more valid and authentic.