AUTHOR=Kuśnierz Cezary , Zmaczyńska-Witek Barbara , Rogowska Aleksandra M. 

TITLE=Preferences of Physical Education Profiles Among Polish Adolescents

JOURNAL=Frontiers in Public Health

VOLUME=Volume 8 - 2020

YEAR=2020

URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/public-health/articles/10.3389/fpubh.2020.00466

DOI=10.3389/fpubh.2020.00466

ISSN=2296-2565

ABSTRACT=The purpose of this study was to examine the association of preferred profiles of Physical Education (PE) classes with gender and school level among Polish adolescents. In the cross-sectional survey study, participated 1,340 Polish students (including 50% of girls), attending middle and high schools, aged between 13–19 years old. The participants selected one of four preferred profiles of PE classes. The majority (n = 845, 63%) of students participated  in PE for "fun – pleasure – entertainment", whereas only one third of students (n = 419, 31%) preferred "exercise – sweat – fitness" as a profile of PE classes. The preference of "fun – pleasure – entertainment" decreased about 41% for boys and 31% for high school students. A preference of "exercise – sweat – fitness" increased about 56% for men and 31% for high school students. Teachers should comply students’ preferences related to PE profile, organizing PE classes in a more fun-related forms for girls and in a more exercise-related forms for boys. The proportion of this two preferred profiles of PE classes should turn across adolescence, increasing exercise-related forms and decreasing those fun-related.