A study on the impact of e-sports participation by students with mental retardation on their self-confidence and social skills

The purpose of this study is to find out the effect of e-sports participation on self-confidence and social development of mentally retarded students. To collect the data, retarded male students between and old were tested. They attend a special-education school located in Ha- am, young- i and they too part in the test for times. The test is about the e-sports(FIFA) and during wee s, from January th to February th, the five students too it for hours. before the five students participated in the e-sports, they had the self-confidence and social development tests and wees later they had the same tests again. According to the results of this participation, statistically, there was no effect of e-sports participation for mentally retarded students in their self-confidence and social development. However, there are some drawbacks first, there were only participants and among them only were capable to complete the questionnaire. Second, seven wees were not over analysed this case. y the way, the observation results of their behavioral changes are lie the followings with the personal characteristics, the results of the questionnaire, and the period of the participation. First of all, according to the personal characteristics of each retarded student, their preferences in the e-sports were different respectively. Thus, due to these dissimilar preferences, there was a difference in their results of confidence measurement. Second, there was no correlation between e-sports participation and social development. Based on the content and the interview of a specially trained teacher, reported that the participation of e-sports had a positive effect on the social development of mentally retarded students. On the contrary, based on the results of this case, participating e-sports itself had no effect on social development, However, the meeting during the e-sports lie an interaction to cooperated in games, or an competitive experience in on-line has an influence on social developmen- .