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Sofía M. Martínez-Sánchez; Laura M. Martínez-Sánchez; Concha Martínez-García – Health Education Journal, 2024
Objective: Research suggests that women experience more barriers to physical exercise than men do. Advocating for increased physical exercise is a primary responsibility of professionals who have specialised in the field of physical activity and sports sciences. This study aimed to examine differences in barriers to the practise of physical…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Barriers, Exercise, Physical Education
Steen Harsted; Lise Hestbaek; Anders Holsgaard-Larsen; Henrik Hein Lauridsen – Journal of Motor Learning and Development, 2024
The natural development of static lower limb varus/valgus alignments during early childhood is well understood. However, our understanding of dynamic lower limb frontal plane alignments is limited, and we lack normative descriptions of this phenomenon for both boys and girls. This study investigated dynamic lower limb alignment during…
Descriptors: Psychomotor Skills, Young Children, Gender Differences, Age Differences
Amy Tomlinson; Lois Smith; Chris Wilcox; Andrew Simpson – Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2024
Retention of higher education students is of major concern within the United Kingdom due to the financial and reputational impact on institutions, financial and personal impact on students and loss of potential skills and knowledge within society. Student background characteristics are acknowledged as the initial factors influencing retention…
Descriptors: Athletics, Exercise, Academic Persistence, College Students
Qi Song; Bo Rong – International Journal of Web-Based Learning and Teaching Technologies, 2024
Data mining has been applied to a large extent in various information application fields this year. In this paper, it is applied to the students' physical exercise for partial optimization and compared with some traditional algorithms for improvement. Different analysis results are obtained under different potential information analysis…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Psychological Patterns, Athletics, Correlation
Xu Zhang – International Education Studies, 2024
The prediction of physical ability is a key point to understand the physical training effect of college students. This paper uses the error Back Propagation neural network algorithms to investigate the college students' physical test results, and predicts the future trends of the results. The findings indicate that, in future ten years, the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Exercise, Physical Activity Level
Baydil, Bilgehan – African Educational Research Journal, 2020
Previously most studies indicated that high intensity training is a powerful stimulus to acute increases in blood testosterone hormone levels in males. The testosterone responses to exercise in females are controversial; while some studies have shown increases, others have suggested no change. The aim of this study was to determine alterations in…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, College Students, Exercise Physiology, Biochemistry
Karharman, Abdulselam; Temel, Veysel – Education Quarterly Reviews, 2022
Positive perception status increases one's worthiness, self-confidence and perspective towards time positively (Icerson & Pines, 2013). The present study aims to examine the positive perception levels of the trainers, who participated in the second level athletics training course opened by the Turkish Athletics Federation at different times in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Athletic Coaches, Trainers, Self Concept
Cheema, Sohaila; Maisonneuve, Patrick; Abraham, Amit; Chaabna, Karima; Yousuf, Wajiha; Mushannen, Tasnim; Ibrahim, Hania; Tom, Abdallah; Lowenfels, Albert B.; Mamtani, Ravinder – Journal of American College Health, 2023
Objective: We aimed to investigate the association between university students' dietary patterns, their demographics and lifestyle in a cross-sectional study in Qatar. Participants: 370 students in eight universities in Qatar enrolled between February 2017 and February 2018. Methods: Based on a structured questionnaire, dietary patterns were…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Eating Habits, Student Characteristics
Töre, Özlem; Karabacak, Sercan – International Journal of Curriculum and Instruction, 2022
Regular physical activities, called exercise, have an important role in maintaining both physical and mental health. However, some researches have shown that exercise done at uncontrollable rates can be harmful and cause addiction. The study adopted survey method and aimed to examine the exercise addictions of the students in the Faculty of Sports…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Exercise, Student Behavior, Physical Activity Level
Boonsem, Aungkana; Malarat, Anan – International Journal of Higher Education, 2018
The purpose of this research was to evaluate the readiness of exercise behaviors of University students. The 400 students were selected using the formula of Yamane and stratified systematic sampling. The instrument used to collect the data was behavioral assessment. The data were analysed using an independent t-test, which resulted in a level of…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Behavior Change, Readiness, Foreign Countries
Orhan, Rüstem – African Educational Research Journal, 2020
This study aimed to analyze the physical inactivity problem from an educational perspective by investigating the profiles of individuals engaging in physical activities and fitness exercises in recreational areas, gyms, green areas, and walking tracks in Ankara, Bursa, Kirikkale and Nazilli city centers in Turkey. The other objectives of the study…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Physical Activity Level, Physical Activities, Physical Fitness
Cengiz, Caner – Shanlax International Journal of Education, 2023
The aim of this study is to examine the physical literacy of high school students. Since the high school age group is between 14-18, it is designed for adolescents. Physical literacy emerges as a concept that does not date back very much. When the literature is examined, it is seen that the number of studies related to this concept is low in…
Descriptors: High School Students, Foreign Countries, Gender Differences, Age Differences
Ricardo Sanmartín; Marco A. García-Luna; Juan M. Cortell-Tormo; María Vicent-Juan; Nelson Otañez-Enriquez; José M. García-Fernández – SAGE Open, 2024
The Achievement Goal Theory has been commonly used in the literature and the relation between the goal orientation construct and aspects of athletes' personality and well-being is an important element to be considered in the sports field. The objectives of this study were: (i) to confirm the reliability, factorial invariance and existence of…
Descriptors: Test Reliability, Factor Analysis, Measures (Individuals), Goal Orientation
Cheema, Sohaila; Maisonneuve, Patrick; Abraham, Amit; Chaabna, Karima; Tom, Abdallah; Ibrahim, Hania; Mushannen, Tasnim; Yousuf, Wajiha; Lowenfels, Albert B.; Mamtani, Ravinder – Journal of American College Health, 2022
Objective: University students face high levels of stress-related factors, such as an unfamiliar environment, challenging workload, and uncertainty about their ability to succeed. Participants: A total of 370 students in Qatar who consented to participate between February 2017 and February 2018. Methods: This cross-sectional study assessed…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Anxiety, Stress Variables, College Students
Zeng, Zhenhao Howard; Sun, Peng – Physical Educator, 2022
The purpose of this study was to examine factors that form university students' attitudes toward physical education (ATPE), the preference of their physical activities (PA), and correlation features among all related factors that form their ATPE. Participants were 1,386 university students from six universities in China. An Adapted Attitudes…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Student Attitudes, Physical Education