Contextos Educativos: Revista de Educación (May 2013)
El valor de la salud en las experiencias de ocio físico-deportivo de jóvenes y adolescentes: conceptualización y estado de la cuestión
Abstract
The present communication presents an analysis of the question state of the healthy dimension in physical-sport leisure experiences. It is integrated in an investigation that seeks to diagnose the necessity to promote intervention programs, through PSL that facilitate the youths the acquisition of values and attitudes that allow them to be formed as people. In the results, it is observed the existence of studies that verify the high prevailing lack of exercise among the European population, in general, and the Spaniard population, in particular. They are data that corroborate the necessity to recommend the population the physical-sport practice, since this activity generally associates to healthier customs and a smaller incidence of risk behaviours. Other conclusions highlight the fact that, as the age advances, it is observed a decrease in positive attitudes, that makes necessary the educational intervention in this environment, since it is verified that the intervention programs get positive results in the attitude change. Other interest data point to the necessity of emphasizing the attitude promotion towards the process, expert this necessity as the bias to value the practice of the physical-sport activity in itself. These data will facilitate us the realization of a diagnosis about the position that the value of the Health occupies in the experiences of the not university of La Rioja studying youths’ physical-sport leisure.
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