2013 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Association of fitness and quantified physical activity with psychological factors in elementary school children.
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23601026
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Children studies (Studies of environment on children)
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| Research Institution | Kyoto Bunkyo University |
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Principal Investigator |
NAGANO Mayumi 京都文教大学, 臨床心理学部, 准教授 (10237547)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
KUMAGAI Shuzo 九州大学, 基幹教育院, 教授 (80145193)
ADACHI Minoru 岡山大学, 大学院教育学研究科, 教授 (70271054)
SHIMADA Kaori 京都文教大学, 臨床心理学部, 講師 (60583333)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2011 – 2013
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| Keywords | 体力 / 身体活動量 / 身体不活動 / 心理的因子 / 児童 |
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| Research Abstract |
Present study examined the association of fitness, physical activity and inactivity quantified using a three-axis accelerometer with negative-and positive psychological factors, taking into account lifestyle and social factors, 249 fourth to sixth grades of children of public school in suburbs of local city and urban private school. As a result, objectively evaluated fitness level and physical inactivity assessed by a questionnaire were independently associated with psychological factors and number of absence per year, adjusting for the lifestyle and school type. However, quantified physical activity was associated only with a small part of the psychological factors. Further, the association was indirectly involved in academic performance or academic unsatisfactory feeling. Prospective study to examine the causal relationship among the above-mentioned factors is needed.
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