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- Title
SCHOOL-AGE CHILDREN ATTITUDE TOWARDS PHYSICAL EDUCATION, ATTENDANCE OF SPORTS CLASSES AND SOME HEALTH INDICATORS.
- Authors
Abele, Agita; Rubana, Inta Mara
- Abstract
Research aim: to state the correlation between the attitude to sports classes, attendance of sports classes and separate parameters characterizing pupils' health: health self-assessment, subjective complaints and the body mass index. Research methods: a) pupils' inquiry; b) analysis of the missed sports classes done by a sports teacher; c) anthropometry. To calculate the BMI the parameters of the body mass and height were used. To evaluate the BMI Cole et al (2000, 2007) growth reference was used. Subjects: 937 children aged 12-16 years. Results. Emotionally positive evaluation of the sports classes has a negative dynamic with a schoolchildren age increasing, what indicates an inadequacy between students' needs and sport education demands. In order to decrease the tendency it is necessary to enhance the quality of sports classes by taking into account students' suggestions and schoolchildren psycho-emotional factors. The attendance of sports classes correlates with the health self-assessment and subjective complaints. It is necessary to improve the quality of sports lessons by listening to the pupils' suggestions and taking into account the psycho-emotional processes characteristic for the age in order to create a positive students' attitude towards them. The health self-assessment by the pupils is good, despite many subjective complaints. In the forms six and eight 40 % of the pupils have assessed their health as very good, 6 % as neither very good nor bad. There is a medium close correlation between the health self-assessment and the number of the missed classes (rs= -628), there is also a medium close negative correlation between the health self-assessment and the number of the missed sports classes (rs= -349). A statistically significant correlation is between the missed sports classes and the complaints about headache and backache. A weaker, but statistically significant correlation is between the missed sports classes and other complaints about disturbances concerning mental health -- regular fatigue, nervousness, bad feeling and unwillingness to do something. The values of the pupils' body mass index are rather dispersed - the minimal is 12.20, but the maximal is 33.70. In this group of pupils there is no significant relation between the attendance of sports classes and the body mass index.
- Subjects
PHYSICAL education; SPORTS psychology; ANTHROPOMETRY; BODY mass index; SCHOOL children; STATURE
- Publication
Humanities & Social Science (1407-9291), 2008, Vol 8, Issue 14, p81
- ISSN
1407-9291
- Publication type
Article