A healthy lifestyle of student youth in the context of a dangerous social and environmental environment in Ukraine

Year 2024, , 68 - 78, 30.06.2024

Iryna Skrypchenko , Oleksandr Morhunov Ratko Pavlovıc , Kseniia Yarymbash Vlada Bilohur

https://doi.org/10.31459/turkjkin.1437393

Abstract

Maintaining a healthy lifestyle and sufficient physical activity contributes to the preservation of health and self-improvement of student youth. Today in Ukrainian universities, there is a decrease in the number of hours for physical education and a transition to distance learning, which negatively affects the health, level of physical fitness and motivation of young people. The transfer of physical education to a distance form of education caused the need to find new forms and methods of teaching, taking into account new rules for the organization of physical culture and health activities of students in order to preserve their health in extremely limited conditions motor loads. The purpose of our research was to study the factors of a healthy lifestyle of student youth in the context of a dangerous social and ecological environment in Ukraine. 28 first-year students took part in the research. The work used a complex of general scientific theoretical methods: the method of analyzing scientific literature, synthesis, systematization, generalization, the method of surveying applicants (online in the Google Forms application), testing the profile of a healthy lifestyle, methods of mathematical statistics. The results of the testing showed that during the year, under the influence of the change in the socio-ecological state of the environment caused by military actions in Ukraine, four indicators reliably (probably) changed among students: Health Responsibility (HR), Physical Activity (PA), Nutrition (N), Spiritual Growth (SG) and Stress Management (SM), (p<0.05). It was determined that the behavioral constructs (HR, PA, and N) and the cognitive-emotional component of student youth (SG, IR and SM) are above average and change as a result of the adverse socioeconomic environment. When students choose physical activity, preference is given to aerobic exercises, which have a positive effect on relieving a stressful situation, and breathing exercises from yoga when overcoming panic attacks.

Keywords

Behavior, cognitive and emotional components, distance learning, healthy lifestyle, physical activity, wartime conditions

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