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EJERCICIO FÍSICO Y CALIDAD DE VIDA EN ESTUDIANTES UNIVERSITARIOS

A. P. Leiva,Paloma Gil-Olarte Márquez,Cristina Guerrero Rodríguez,José Miguel Mestre Navas,Rocío Guil Bozal

Published 2017 in International Journal of Developmental and Educational Psychology. Revista INFAD de psicología

ABSTRACT

The recommendation of physical exercise as a strategy for prevention and promotion of health has been established in both the health and psychological areas. Despite the increased flow of research in recent years, the need to increase the empirical support of the relationships between physical activity and quality of life is well known. In favor of this need, this study aims to: 1. Clarify if there are different typologies between those who perform physical exercise and those who do not. 2. Delimit more specific typologies according to the frequency of realization from a gender perspective. To do this, a battery of questionnaires focused on quality of life indicators: depression, state anxiety (A-State), trait anxiety (A-Trait), personal satisfaction and satisfaction with life were administered to a sample of 153 university students. By means of the biphasic cluster analysis, we obtain 2 typologies among the students that perform some physical activity and those students who do not perform any physical exercise, the first responding to a better score in the previously mentioned indicators. Deepening the frequency, and taking into account the gender of individuals who exercise; we have differentiated 4 typologies, 2 composed mainly by men who behave as expected, responding to a better quality of life the category that performs a higher frequency of exercise a week; and 2 others composed of women who present differences that are not defined so pronounced and some variables are not related according to expectations. This fact underscores the need for more thorough investigation. We encourage research to develop physical activity programs aimed at improving the quality of life in different populations.

PUBLICATION RECORD

  • Publication year

    2017

  • Venue

    International Journal of Developmental and Educational Psychology. Revista INFAD de psicología

  • Publication date

    2017-10-22

  • Fields of study

    Education, Psychology

  • Identifiers
    DOI 10.17060/IJODAEP.2017.N1.V2.956
  • External record

    Open on Semantic Scholar

  • Source metadata

    Semantic Scholar

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