Mokinių fizinis aktyvumas ir jo sąsajos su mokinių internališkumu ir eksternališkumu, saviverte ir pasitikėjimu savimi

LTReikšminiai žodžiai: Fizinis aktyvumas, internališkumas, eksternališkumas, savivertė, pasitikėjimas savimi; Physical activity, internality, externality, self-esteem, self-confidence.

ENThe aim of research was to determine students’ physical activity and its relation to internality-externality, self-esteem and self-confidence. Material and methods: The participants were 166 healthy Lithuanian schoolchildren of 9th – 12th grade, 78 boys and 88 girls. The study conducted in March 2015 in Lazdijai District Gymnasium. The respondents were given a questionnaire consisting of three parts. The first of survey part included questions about students gender, age, grade, school, academic achievement (AA) – the last semester (trimester) learning grades in different subjects, physical education lessons trimester (semester) grade. The second part included questions about pupils’ physical activity (PA) (Petronytė, 2009). Students, according to G. Petronyte’s (2009) methodology, were divided into physically active and passive, they also had to evaluate subjectively their PA and physical fitness (PF) in 10 points scale. The third part of the questionnaire was designed to determine the students’ self-esteem and self-confidence (Rosenberg, 1965) and the last part of questionnaire involved questions about students internalism-externality, which helps to determine the pupil’s attitude to the environment and to himself (according to A. Bagdonas and L. Pociūtė (1988) E–I scale). Results and conclusion: 1. During the research there was determined that 33.1% of students were physically active and 66.9% not active. In respect of gender, males were more active (42.3%) than females (25%). According to grades, statistically significant differences (p>0.05) were not determined. Furthermore, physical activity level achieved by different groups of learning outcomes did not vary statistically (p>0.05). 2. Considering all results of students’ confidence and self-respect evaluation, there was no statistically significant differences (p>0.05), however the tendency is observed that males are predisposed to value themselves better than females.3. In this research, after analyzing the internality-externality of students, according to activity and passivity of students and facts of learning outcomes there were mostly ambiternal personalities (24.7%). Consequently, there is presumed that the biggest part of students is characterized by internal and external control taking responsibility for decisions, learning success and failures. [From the publication]