Effects of physical activity on the mood states of young students

• Autor(a) principal: Gaia, Jhonatan Wélington Pereira
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Outros Autores: Ferreira, Rodrigo Weyll, Pires, Daniel Alvarez
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng; por
• Título da fonte: Journal of Physical Education (Maringá)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.uem.br/ojs/index.php/RevEducFis/article/view/50469
• topic: physical activity; mood; mental health; adolescent health; atividade física; humor; saúde mental; saúde do adolescente

The aim of the research is to analyze the effect of the level of physical activity on the perception of the mood states in young students of the final grades of high school. The sample was constituted by a total of 216 students, of both sexes, with an average age of 16.89 ±1.48 years. This cross-sectional research was characterized as descriptive and of quantitative aspect. The Scale of Humor of Brunel (BRUMS) and the Questionnaire of Habitual Physical Activities were used as instruments of data collection. The verification of the normality was accomplished through the test of Kolmogorov-Smirnov. Subsequently, the inferential statistics were applied for non-parametric data, with the tests of Kruskal-Wallis and Dunn's Post-Hoc. Spearman's correlation coefficient was used to verify the relationship between the level of physical activity and mood states. The adopted significance was of p < 0.05. Results showed that the perception of the humor states by students presents significant differences when we considered the level of physical activity of that population. Youths classified as inactive physically informed a smaller vigor level as well as a larger predisposition to the negative aspects of humor when compared to the active physically youths. In this case, the physical activity, even in lower levels, can contribute to a better perception of the psychological health.