Increasing Quality of Life among Gendarmes by the Specific Means of Team Sports Games in Order to Improve Professional Efficiency

摘要

Sports games, due to the situations they create, contribute to the shaping and improvement of personalities. Men are by nature antagonistic and eager to compete, but they also want to improve both physically and behaviourally all along their lives. In this context, sports games become a means for self-assessment, where one can run a race against oneself as well as against others. The systematic practice of sports games in military physical training sessions can have immediate effects. The effects address both the biological and psychological spheres in the sense that participants can express their impulses in a variety of ways. The experiment verifies the existence of a relationship between the effects of operational structures specific to sports games on the gendarmes’ capacity to respond and effectively manage unexpected situations, which can turn into vulnerabilities generating stress, disrupting homeostasis, resulting in a decreased quality of life. New situations are created within the shared theme of the sport lesson, both in the game theme chosen and in the adversity between the two teams composed specifically for this purpose.