Significance and frequency of sports and recreational activities in the demographic structure: middle-aged people

Abstract

An important factor for any person is recreation or physical activity. It is well known that the effects of recreation certainly affect the psychophysical state of man, as well as the social environment, social intelligence, and more specifically, overall health. A groups of people who do not exercise are frequent, especially in middle age. In terms of physical activity, they mean all those contents that become acceptable to all populations. With the development of modern technology and the accelerated pace of life, it has also contributed to the development of modern awareness of the importance of sports activities in the daily life of modern man. The authors of the paper conducted research on an increasingly topical topic in the World, how much physical activity is present in the category of middle age. The research was carried out in Novi Sad (Serbia) in 2018, and through the processing of data in the SPSS program 23.00. The starting hypothesis of the research was confirmed that groups of middle-aged subjects less practiced daily sports and recreational activities. Also, the theoretical aspects (obtained by the bibliographic-speculative method) of the importance of practicing sports and recreational activities for human life will be presented in the paper, through the consideration of many domestic and World researches.