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Carlos Martinez-Mirambell; Olalla García-Taibo; Alberto Ferriz-Valero; Salvador Baena-Morales – Journal of Adventure Education and Outdoor Learning, 2025
Plogging, a practice that combines outdoor exercise with waste collection, is a novel alternative to physical activity; therefore, it has not been extensively studied in the scientific literature yet. The aim of this research is to analyse whether students' environmental attitudes are affected by a 6-week intervention based on plogging. A total of…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Sustainability, Physical Education, Outdoor Education
Hua Tian – International Journal of Web-Based Learning and Teaching Technologies, 2024
At present, there are problems in teaching and teachers in colleges and universities, and college physical education and health care students do not get effective exercise, and their physical fitness indexes have decreased and mental health problems have appeared. In this paper, the effect of fitness exercise prescription on the mental health of…
Descriptors: Physical Fitness, Mental Health, Student Athletes, College Athletics
Lee, Joey A.; Velthoff, Jessica; Welk, Greg J. – Measurement in Physical Education and Exercise Science, 2022
The study examined the sensitivity to change of field assessments of handgrip strength and vertical jump following programmatic interventions in physical education settings. Using a naturalistic experimental design, classes of 6th grade students (N = 158) were randomized to receive either an 8-week musculoskeletal strength or plyometric power…
Descriptors: Physical Activities, Physical Education, Muscular Strength, Physical Fitness
Fatma Ceylan; Saime Erol – Journal of School Nursing, 2024
This study aims to demonstrate the effect of a transtheoretical model (TTM)-based physical activity program on the exercise behavior of adolescents using WhatsApp. The study was conducted with high school students (N = 185) in a pre-/posttest, quasi-experimental design. TTM-based text messages were sent to the intervention group (n = 95) over…
Descriptors: Physical Activity Level, Computer Software, Metabolism, Comparative Analysis
Yumashev, Alexei; Berestova, Anna; Derinov, Aleksandr; Medvedev, Ilya; Philippova, Alla – International Journal of Early Years Education, 2022
This study aimed to discover the effect of physical education on the emotional and mental development of pre-schoolers. The study involved 355 pre-schoolers (162 males and 158 females) aged 4 (N = 215) and 5 (N = 150) years (mean age = 4.36, SD = 0.76) who attend public preschool institutions in Moscow, Russia. All respondents were divided into…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Comparative Analysis, Emotional Development, Foreign Countries
Sevillano-Monje, Verónica; Martín-Gutiérrez, Ángela; Hervás-Gómez, Carlos – Education Sciences, 2022
Because of the changes in society, the educational scope must implement teaching--learning methodologies that help students to develop the competences that will be necessary in their academic--professional journey. This study presents a teaching innovation experience that is based on the flipped classroom methodology, which was carried out with…
Descriptors: Flipped Classroom, Teaching Methods, Physical Education, Team Sports
Aghdaei, Mahin; Farsi, Alireza; Khalaji, Maryam; Porter, Jared – Journal of Motor Learning and Development, 2021
Much research has been executed to investigate how altering focus of attention impacts performance and feelings of fatigue. Using a within-participant design, the present study examined how an associative and dissociative attentional in addition to an internal and external attentional dimension influenced the running economy of nonprofessional…
Descriptors: Physical Activities, Psychomotor Skills, Females, Comparative Analysis
Dogru, Yeliz – African Educational Research Journal, 2021
The curfew restrictions applied during the pandemic period have had negative physical and psychological effects on people all over the world. Therefore, the aim of the study is examining the effect of distance exercise education on psychological state and body awareness. Twenty-one sedentary women aged 20-30 years participated in the study.…
Descriptors: Exercise, Physical Education, Females, Human Body
DiMatteo, Julie; Radnitz, Cynthia; Loeb, Katharine L.; Ni, Jingwen – Journal of Teaching in Physical Education, 2019
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to examine if automatic enrollment in exercise-promoting courses on a college campus, with a choice to opt out, would increase enrollment. Method: In a simulated course selection paradigm, 317 college students were randomly assigned to one of three conditions: optimal default (automatic enrollment in an…
Descriptors: Physical Education, College Students, Course Selection (Students), Exercise
Biyikli, Türker – Journal of Education and Training Studies, 2018
In the study, it is aimed to determine whether there is any improvement in the physical performance development of the individuals, who have made exercise with OPT MODEL -EMS mix. and traditional PT models within the 20-week exercise program. In the study, pre-test, posttest, experimental screening by pattern methods are used. Study groups consist…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Models, Foreign Countries, Pretests Posttests
Boyaci, Abdurrahman; Tutar, Murat; Biyikli, Türker – Online Submission, 2018
The study aims to investigate whether or not there is an acute effect of dynamic and static core exercises applied to footballer children with 12-14 years of age on their physical performances. The experimental method with pre-test and post-test pattern and control group has been used in the study. A sampling of the study has been created from the…
Descriptors: Early Adolescents, Team Sports, Athletes, Exercise
Aksoy, Duygu – Online Submission, 2019
Recently, the Whole Body Vibration (WBV) training has been introduced as an alternative method of exercise or as a type of physical exercise in health and fitness centers. The purpose of the present study was to examine the effect of Whole Body Vibration (WBV) training applied for 12 weeks on depression level. A total of 53 healthy young male…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Depression (Psychology), Measures (Individuals), Physical Fitness
Schedler, Simon; Brock, Katharina; Fleischhauer, Fabian; Kiss, Rainer; Muehlbauer, Thomas – Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport, 2020
Purpose: In youth, cross-sectional studies reported age differences in balance performance that were in favor of adolescents. Thus, trainability of balance performance might be different in children compared to adolescents. The purpose of this study was therefore to compare the effects of balance training (BT) on balance performance between…
Descriptors: Psychomotor Skills, Age Differences, Pretests Posttests, Children
Taskin, Cengiz – Higher Education Studies, 2016
The aim of study was to analyze aerobic capacity and anaerobic power levels of the university students. Total forty university students who is department physical education and department business (age means; 21.15±1.46 years for male and age means; 20.55±1.79 years for female in department physical education), volunteered to participate in this…
Descriptors: College Students, Higher Education, Exercise, Foreign Countries
Kekeeva, Zinaida; Burlykov, Vladimir; Proshkin, Sergey – International Journal of Environmental and Science Education, 2016
The relevance of the investigated problem is due to the needs of modern society in the preservation of the physical health of the nation, development of physical education in higher school. The purpose of the article is to disclose theoretical and methodological basis of organisation of physical fitness monitoring of a specialist as a means of…
Descriptors: Physical Fitness, Foreign Countries, Physical Health, Physical Education