Shaping a healthy lifestyle attitude in adolescents in extra curricular learning

DOI

10.2991/icistis-19.2019.11How to use a DOI?

Keywords

attitude, healthy lifestyle, development, personality, adolescent.

Abstract

The article aims to give a theoretical justification and experimentally evaluate the effectiveness of the program promoting positive attitudes toward a healthy lifestyle in adolescents in the context of extracurricular education. Research methods. The leading research method is a pedagogical experiment aimed at assessing the attitude to a healthy lifestyle and behavior in adolescents. To measure the adolescents’ attitude, the following questionnaires were used: “Let's Be Healthy!” developed by Shishkovets and “What Stops Me from Living a Healthy Lifestyle” developed by Purin. Results. The formative stage of the experiment is an experimental program which employed different kinds of group work to promote healthy lifestyle behavior among adolescents: action workshops, training sessions, round table discussions. The qualitative and quantitative analyses of the results of the experimental verification of the program have shown an improvement in the healthy lifestyle attitude in adolescents. The Wilcoxon signed-rank test, a method of mathematical statistics, was used to verify the validity of the quantitative data obtained in the experiment. Conclusion: the findings have proved the effectiveness of the program which uses different kinds of group work to improve adolescents’ attitude to a healthy lifestyle. The materials of the article can be used to upgrade the educational process in the system of extracurricular education.

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© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

Open Access

This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Svetlana Bykova
AU  - Natalia Buldakova
PY  - 2019/11
DA  - 2019/11
TI  - Shaping a healthy lifestyle attitude in adolescents in extra curricular learning
BT  - Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Innovations in Sports, Tourism and Instructional Science (ICISTIS 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 37
EP  - 40
SN  - 2468-5739
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DO  - 10.2991/icistis-19.2019.11
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