Benefits of physical activity for social adaptation at school

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Researcher D.N. Pukhov1
PhD A.V. Tsareva1
PhD E.A. Zyurin2
1Saint-Petersburg Scientific-Research institute for Physical Culture, Saint-Petersburg
2Federal Physical Culture and Sports Research Center, Moscow

Objective of the study was to rate the schoolchildren’s commitment for the school physical education and sports classes versus their peer relations and friendship survey data.
Methods and structure of the study. Saint-Petersburg Research Institute of Physical Culture (SPRIPC) leads the national research under the international Health Behavior in School-aged Children (HBSC) Project. The Project includes four-year research cycles once in different Russian regions with the large-scale anonymous surveys of school population classified into three age groups (11, 13 and 15 year-olds). The technical and institutional provisions developed by SPRIPC include a web site with a Russian version of the international survey, a cloud database for online surveys, and a special data processing and analyzing software toolkit. This article presents and analyzes the questionnaire survey data mined in the 2017-18 research cycle. Most of the survey data were mined by the web site tools and complemented by hardcopy survey reports obtained from the regional groups. The schoolchildren’s commitment for physical education and sports classes was rated under this study by the physical activity rating standard MVPA indices (moderate to vigorous physical activity) as provided by the WHO.
Results and Conclusion. The survey data and analysis clearly demonstrate a direct correlation between commitment for the physical education and sports classes and reported quality of the peer friendship with mutual trust and help. As demonstrated by Figures 1-2, the MVPA group 3 boys were tested with a fall on these scales with age – versus the MVPA group 7 boys tested with growth on every of the four scales versus the 13-year-old boys subgroup. The data gives reasons to believe that the physical activity and socialization success are closely correlated in the school sample, with the higher commitment for the physical education and sports classes being clearly beneficial for friendship and – as found by our prior studies under the Project – this friendship in its turn heavily contributes to the physical education and sports motivations.

Keywords: schoolchildren, peer relations, friendship, physical education and sports activity, physical activity, monitoring.

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