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  • Sport activities and smoking habits among the youth in Slovenia
    Videmšek, Mateja ...
    The aim of this research is to establish whether primary and secondary school children who are sports active smoke. This research is based on studying 379 primary and secondary school children from ... Ljubljana. For the research purpose, a questionnaire including 42 variables has been used. All variables have been "crossed" with the criterion variable "How many hours per week do you practice sport, including PE lessons?". The research results analysis has shown that in primary schools 12.9% males and 10.9% females smoke, and in secondary schools 14.6% males and 11.2% females smoke. On average, primary school children started smoking when they were 12, secondary school children when the were 13 years old. Care for health is the main reason why the majority of children do not smoke and the reason why these children are sports active. Among those who are sports active, there are more secondary than primary school children. Primary school children mostly practice sport competitively, while the secondary school children rather practice sport recreationally. Children who come from non-smoking families (i.e. parents do not smoke) are usually more actively involved in sport activities than those children who come from smoking families. There are though not many parents who are also sports active, but still most of them do encourage their children to practice sport. Even though the results of crossing variables connected with sport activity with variables connected with smoking wasn't statistically important, yet important and interesting findings can be concluded based on the collected results. In order to decrease smoking habits among the youth, various additional activities would have to be made available for themč activities that would interest them on one hand, and on the other hand, the activities that would be available to them at their spare time. And sport activities certainly find place among them.
    Vir: Acta Universitatis Palackianae Olomucensis. Gymnica. - ISSN 1212-1185 (Vol. 33, no 2, 2003, str. 23-28)
    Vrsta gradiva - članek, sestavni del ; neleposlovje za odrasle
    Leto - 2003
    Jezik - angleški
    COBISS.SI-ID - 2002609

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