Persistence during Tasks with Horses in Relation to Social Support, General Self-efficacy and Self-esteem in Adolescents

摘要: ABSTRACTIn young people, interactions with horses may contribute to the development of social skills and self-efficacy. Our aim was identify relationships between psychological variables people's experience activities horses. Participants in this study were 13–15-year-old adolescents (n = 25), given a 4-month intervention consisting weekly sessions stable work horseback riding. We investigated relationship from survey data video-recorded behavioral observations during tasks contact From data, we calculated frequency per hour “trying again” when met challenge, as measure participants' persistence horse-related tasks. The number times that participant initiated horse used physical (petting). examined correlations change early late stages trying again horse-r...