Improving Students’ Motor Activity as a Motivational Orientation towards a Healthy Lifestyle

Abstract

An individual’s physical activity is the result of human biological needs which are formed due to the interaction with the environment. But the problem itself does not acknowledge the nature of the individual’s activity because it may be solved with the help of different things or methods. The satisfying feature is defined when an individual starts to act. Consequently the research has been conducted among the students of the Chernivtsi National University. The aim of the research was to learn about the motivation for the improvement of recreational activities. As a result of the research it turned out how youth usually spend their free time after studying, why students want to train, which factors encourage them to use recreational activities, what reasons hinder them in their efforts to do the chosen recreationally curative activities and what effect they want to have on such trainings. Moreover, it was found that the majority of students want to do recreational activities although they have some obstacles to train systematically. Furthermore it was ascertained that the preference is given to the free time activities which do not require special equipment and significant costs. According to the results of the sociological research, we’ve discovered the actual motives that encourage students to the recreationally curative activities. It is worth saying a physical activity is the priority among different factors which have an influence on a young person’s health and efficiency. The analyzed data gives reasons to affirm that on the one hand students’ free time depends on demographical changes, social and cultural environment and on the other hand it is linked to the system of the orientation of their values, needs and interests.