Diversity of lifestyles of university students in Biała Podlaska with particular focus on physical activity
Journal Title: Antropomotoryka. Journal of Kinesiology and Exercise Sciences - Year 2013, Vol 23, Issue 63
Abstract
The aim of the study was to assess the differences between the lifestyles of university students with a particular focus on physical activity according to the type of the university.Material and methods. The study was conducted in 2012 among 319 students of two universities in Biała Podlaska: 198 students of physical education at the Department of Physical Education (DPE) and 121 students of public health at the Pope John Paul II State School of Higher Education (SSHE). This study used the diagnostic poll method with a questionnaire (developed by the authors of this paper) that comprised three parts. The first part involved a self-assessment of the frequency of participants’ health behaviors, the second part evaluated obligatory and voluntary physical activity, and the third part evaluated the participants’ characteristics. The chi-square test (P < 0.05) was used to determine statistical differences between the responses.Results show that most students studying physical education (82.8%) and students studying public health (64.5%) regularly experience general well-being. Approximately three-quarters of the participants sometimes eat irregularly; one-half of them eat excessive amounts of food. Almost half of the students of DPE and a quarter of the students of SSHE regularly care about their health. Among the former, 73.7% sometimes have a limited time for sleep, compared to 53.8% of the latter. The vast majority of the respondents do not smoke (81.8% in DPE and 72.8% in SSHE), while more than half of them sometimes drink alcohol (67.1% and 69.4%, respectively). Students of DPE regularly engage in recreational and sports activity (61.2%), compared to 23.1% of the students of SSHE. The most popular activities of the former include brisk walking (48%) and team sports (44.4%); the latter mainly engage in brisk walking (45.6%) and cycling (24.3%). More students of the SSHE (79.0%) sometimes engage in tourism activity than the students of DPE (45.0%).Conclusions. The lifestyles of the study participants involve both positive and negative health behaviors. The chi-square test found that most differences between the two universities were statistically significant (P < 0.05), with the students of DPE showing more positive health behaviors than the students of SSHE. Studying at a sports university has a greater effect on building one’s healthy behaviors than studying at the other type of a university.
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Zofia Kubińska, Jolanta Danielewicz
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