Josip Lepes¹, Szabolcs Halasi¹, Aliz Bohner-Beke²

¹University of Novi Sad, Teachers’ Training Faculty in Hungarian (Subotica, Serbia)
²Eotvos Jozsef College (Baja, Hungary)

LEISURE TIME OF TEACHERS’ TRAINING FACULTY STUDENTS IN SUBOTICA

Sport Mont 2015, XIII(43-44-45), 345-349

Abstract

Physical activity contributes to physical, mental and social health and improves the quality of life of people of all ages. Physical inactivity and sedentary lifestyle are a public health problems in Serbia. The purpose of study was to collect a data from students of Teachers’ Training Faculty on Hungarian (TTFH) in Subotica about behaving at their free time, focusing on physical activities and sedentary behavior.The TTFH carried out a survey to assess the leisure time habits of their students in academic year 2013/2014. This study included a total of 116 voluntary undergraduated students (male:23, female:93). The questionnaire included 31 items, distributed in 5 blocks: descriptive data (3 items), healthy habits (5 items), feeding habits (5 items), sedentary behavior (14 items) and unhealthy behaviors (4 items). The anthropometric measures body mass and body height were taken using standard procedures and instruments, and accordingly, BMI (height/weight2) values were calculated. Surveyed male students reported greater participation in healthy habits than did female students, and they also spent more time with sedentary behavior, but the difference weren’t significant. Students spent little time on physical activities in their free time and a lot of time with sedentary behaviour. It has to be changed, because by time they will become teachers and if they are bad examples to children we can’t expect from the society to be healthier

Keywords

leisure time, physical activity, students

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