A study on the effects of health behavior and sports participation on female college students' body mass index and healthy promoting lifestyle

Abstract

ObjectiveLife form and body composition may affect the health of college students. This study will explore the relationship between the demographic variables of female college students and their body composition and health promoting lifestyle, so as to provide useful reference for the future design and planning of college students' physical and mental health courses and improving their physical activity level.MethodsUsing the method of questionnaire and bioelectrical resistance measurement, a questionnaire on healthy lifestyle of college students was constructed on the basis of consulting a large number of relevant research literature. Relevant survey samples were obtained through random sampling, and their body composition was measured; use SPSS21.0 statistical analysis software to conduct statistical analysis on relevant indicators.Results and conclusions(1) at present, female college students generally lack leisure activities and sleep, the proportion of regular fitness habits is low, and the number of snacks and average daily online time are generally too high; The overweight rate and body fat rate of female college students are generally too high, while the standard rate of muscle weight is generally too low. (2) Female college students' health promoting lifestyle has the highest score of self-realization, followed by interpersonal support and the worst behavior of sports participation; The older the college students, the worse their sports participation and overall health promotion behavior; The better the Conscious health status, the better the self-realization, exercise participation and nutritional behavior; The more exercise time per day, the higher their participation in sports and the stronger their health responsibility; The more time spent on the Internet every day, the worse the health responsibility and sports participation. (3) The more time female college students spend on the Internet every day, the higher the probability of overweight. Those with regular exercise habits have a lower proportion of overweight and high body fat rate, while the better their sleep and night snack behavior, the lower their body fat rate. The older college students are, the larger their visceral fat area is, the better their exercise habits and sleep behavior are, the smaller their visceral fat area is, and the lower their visceral fat level is.

How do Psychosocial Problems affect Subjective Wellbeing and Mental Health of Ukrainian Youth? Alternative Ways of Coping

“…As is known, our sensations, thoughts, feelings, emotions, mood and internal attitudes allow us to «press the reset button» of the human mind(Ghosh et al, 2021) and directly affect the psychophysiological processes, somatic health and life expectancy.For this reason, in accordance with the latter research aim, and taking into account the identified decline in psychosomatic health in young participants, we applied to them in practice several simple effective means to improve subjective wellbeing and reduce anxiety, stress. We guess that the aforementioned ancient Eastern techniques can serve as an effective, low-cost and easily applicable means of normalizing the psychophysiological functions, which are as beneficial as sports(Lin, & Liu, 2023;Stoduto et al, 2023;Yuan et al, 2022),…”