Emotional Condition and Physical Activity of First-year Female Students at Medical College During the Academic Year

Abstract

The objective is to establish emotional state changes among female students during the academic year regarding available physical activity. Material & methods: the study involved 65 first year femalestudents of medical college at Danylo Halytskyi Lviv National Medical University. To achieve the tasks set the study relied on the following methods: analysis and synthesis of scientific and technical literature, pedagogical observation, methods of mathematical statistics (t-Student test for independent samples), SAN method. results: no reliable differences found when comparing indicators of activity and mood at the beginning and end of the academic year. The obtained results of the survey indicate medium and high evaluationof SAN categories at low levels of physical activity. conclusions: state of health, activity and mood levelswere rated with middle and high scoresbyfemale students. SAN evaluation dynamics has been lowering during the academic year, and the activity level of female students was significantly lower than that ofstate of health as well as mood. The resulting index of activity level as emotional characteristic largely reflects low physical activity of female students.

The Dynamics of Indicators of Psycho-Emotional Condition of College Students, Influenced by Teambuilding Technologies

“…The impact of motor activity has special value in the period when a teenager begins to study in college as a student, because their age in first academic years in college equals to that of high school students. Complex psychological processes in students' consciousness and behavior at such age, psycho-emotional feelings that relate to the ending of biological and physiological development and with adaptation to new conditions of studying and living, are manifested through their psycho-emotional condition (Semenova & Mahlovanyi, 2015;Semenova & Mahlovanyi, 2017). However, specialists mention (Romanovskiy, Shapovalova, Kvasnyk, & Gura, 2017;Kondratets, 2019;Gieroba, 2019) that low level of motor activity among adolescents and youth pushes specialists to search and implement modern, innovative techniques into physical education that could increase the level of interest towards it and facilitate favorable health condition, particularly its psychological (psycho-emotional) domain.…”

“…Previous research of psycho-emotional condition of students from Medical College at Danylo Halytskyi Lviv National Medical University allowed to determine the condition and dynamics of psycho-emotional indicators during the first academic years (Semenova & Mahlovanyi, 2015;Semenova & Mahlovanyi, 2017). Psycho-emotional condition has been studied by several scientists who interpret it as a complex phenomenon which consists of cognitive, evaluative, and emotional domains (Khoroshilove & Hilger, 2019).…”