Associations among Physical Education, Activity-Related Healthy Lifestyle Practices, and Cardiorespiratory Fitness of Chinese Youth

Autor/inn/en	Li, Youfa; Wang, Sijia; Yu, Yong; Wu, Lili; Shi, Yutong; Zhang, Michelle; Wu, Xinwei; Ma, Xiao
Titel	Associations among Physical Education, Activity-Related Healthy Lifestyle Practices, and Cardiorespiratory Fitness of Chinese Youth
Quelle	In: Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport, 90 (2019) 2, S.123-132 (10 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0270-1367
DOI	10.1080/02701367.2019.1603772
Schlagwörter	Correlation; Physical Fitness; Health Behavior; Physical Education; Physical Activities; Life Style; Grade 8; Middle School Students; Structural Equation Models; Physical Education Teachers; Eating Habits; Socioeconomic Status; School Location; Gender Differences; Body Composition; Foreign Countries; Curriculum Implementation; China + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Korrelation; Leistungsfähigkeit; Health behaviour; Gesundheitsverhalten; Körpererziehung; Sportunterricht; Lebensstil; School year 08; 8. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 08; Middle school; Middle schools; Student; Students; Mittelschule; Mittelstufenschule; Schüler; Schülerin; Physical education; Physical training; Teacher; Teachers; Sportlehrer; Ernährungsgewohnheit; Essgewohnheit; Socio-economic status; Sozioökonomischer Status; Schulgelände; Geschlechterkonflikt; Ausland
Abstract	Purpose: Physical education (PE) in school provides opportunities for physical activity (PA) engagement and reportedly results in improved health-related fitness. This study explored the underlying correlations between PE and activity-related healthy lifestyle practices with current level of cardiorespiratory fitness. Methods: A total of 13,138 students age 14 (boys = 7,094, 54.0%) in Grade 8 from the China National Assessment of Educational Quality - Physical Education & Health 2015 were included in this study. Two independent structural equation modeling (SEM) analyses were conducted to obtained sex-specific results. Data included the results of the 15-m progressive aerobic cardiovascular endurance run (PACER) and questionnaire data regarding PE curriculum implementation, learning and practice, perceived support from PE teachers, PE facilities, PE equipment, activity-related healthy lifestyle practices, habitual physical fitness, appropriate method of physical fitness, and breakfast eating habits. Structural equation modeling was applied to examine the associations between variables, controlling for socioeconomic status, the location of schools, and Body Mass Index. Results: There was a statistically significant relationship between cardiorespiratory fitness and activity-related healthy lifestyle practices, which was somewhat positively impacted by skill learning and practice and perceived support from PE teachers. Together, the boy's model explained 21.8% of the variance in cardiorespiratory fitness, whereas the girl's model explained 15.9%. Conclusions: A well-organized PE program is related to students' activity-related healthy lifestyle practices, and consequently provides an improvement to cardiorespiratory fitness. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01