Lifestyle And Physical Education

• Authors: Alberto Nuviala , Manuel Gómez-López , José Turpin , Román Nuviala
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

In order to improve the influence of Physical Education within schools on the creation of a healthy lifestyle, it is essential to analyze students' opinions in regard to this subject and its teachers. The aim of this research was to establish lifestyle typologies and to find out if these are correlated with the perception of Physical Education and its teachers. The participants in this research consisted of 745 teenagers belonging to three different rural environments. In order to establish typologies related to the use of spare time, a cluster analysis was carried out. Then, the relation between lifestyle and the evaluation of Physical Education was determined by means of the Chi-square test. The results show the existence of two lifestyle typologies. The group with a healthier lifestyle is the one that rates Physical Education and its teachers more positively.

Keywords

EN

Physical Education; healthy habits; lifestyle; teacher

• Publisher: De Gruyter Open
• Journal: Journal of Human Kinetics
• Year: 2011
• Volume: 27
• Pages: 147-160

Dates

published

1 - 3 - 2011

online

6 - 4 - 2011

Contributors

author

Alberto Nuviala

• Faculty of Sport, University Pablo de Olavide of Seville, Spain

author

Manuel Gómez-López

• Faculty of Sport Sciences, University of Murcia, Spain

author

José Turpin

• Faculty of Education, University of Alicante, Spain

author

Román Nuviala

• Faculty of Sport, University Pablo de Olavide of Seville, Spain

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/v10078-011-0012-2