scholarly journals Analysis of the Structural Relationship of Sports Participation and Ego-Resilience in the Health-Promoting Behavior of Korean Adolescents during the COVID-19 Pandemic

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dae-Jung LEE ◽  
Byung-Kweon CHANG ◽  
Seung-Man LEE
Keyword(s):  
Online Survey ◽  
Sports Participation ◽  
Structural Relationship ◽  
Korean Adolescents ◽  
Ego Resilience ◽  
Global Pandemic ◽  
Path Analyses ◽  
Health Promoting ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
Positive Effect

Background: We aimed to verify the structural relationship between sports participation, ego-resilience, and healthpromoting behavior of Korean adolescents in a pandemic situation. Methods: In Nov 2020, an online survey was conducted with 751 adolescents in Korea. The data obtained through the survey were analyzed in several ways, including frequency, reliability, confirmatory factor, descriptive statistical, and path analyses. Results: Sports participation had a positive effect on ego-resilience and health-promoting behavior, while egoresilience has a positive effect on health-promoting behavior. Overall, sports participation directly affects healthpromoting behavior and that an indirect effect occurs through ego-resilience. Conclusion: Educational institutions such as schools and the Korea Offices of Education should devise various measures so that adolescents growing up in a global pandemic situation can strengthen their health-promoting behavior by securing ego-resilience through participation in various sports.

scholarly journals The Relationship between Korean Adolescents’ Sports Participation, Internal Health Locus of Control, and Wellness during COVID-19

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (6) ◽  
pp. 2950
Author(s):  
Dae-Jung Lee ◽  
Wi-Young So ◽  
Seung-Man Lee
Keyword(s):  
Locus Of Control ◽  
Health Locus Of Control ◽  
Reliability And Validity ◽  
Sports Participation ◽  
Pilot Test ◽  
Main Study ◽  
Korean Adolescents ◽  
Adolescent Students ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
Positive Effect

This study was aimed at providing practical information to improve Korean adolescents’ wellness by empirically identifying its correlation with sports participation and having an internal health locus of control (IHLC) during the COVID-19 pandemic. This study comprised both a pilot test and a main study. We recruited 844 Korean adolescents as subjects in January 2021 to participate in an online self-reported survey. The reliability and validity of the scales used (sports participation, IHLC, and wellness) were verified through a pilot test. In the main study, we verified the differences between all variables according to adolescents’ demographic characteristics and the structural relationship of sports participation, IHLC, and wellness. Sports participation had a positive effect on IHLC (p < 0.001) and wellness (p < 0.001). Additionally, IHLC had a positive effect on wellness (p < 0.001). In juvenile educational institutions, there is a need to develop strategies to increase wellness, sports participation, and IHLC among adolescent students, which can improve their wellness in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic.

scholarly journals Structural Relationship between Korean Adolescent’s Sports Participation, Optimism, Pessimism, Self-Regulation, and Coronavirus-Related Stress in the Pandemic Situation

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (20) ◽  
pp. 10645
Author(s):  
Ho-Hyun Song ◽  
Dae-Jung Lee
Keyword(s):  
Online Survey ◽  
Self Regulation ◽  
Sports Participation ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Korean Adolescents ◽  
Confirmatory Factor ◽  
Negative Effect ◽  
Related Stress ◽  
Positive Effect

This study aimed to examine the relationships between sports participation, optimism/pessimism, self-regulation, and coronavirus-related stress in Korean adolescents during the pandemic situation. Specifically, we attempted to offer valuable information that could help to alleviate coronavirus-related stress in adolescents by promoting participation in sports and the development of optimism and self-regulation. To achieve this aim, we conducted an online survey of 836 Korean adolescents in the pilot and main studies. Confirmatory factor, frequency, path, reliability, descriptive statistical, and multimedia analyses were performed. Our findings indicated several differences for each variable according to demographic characteristics. Sports participation exerted a positive effect on optimism (p < 0.001) and self-regulation (p < 0.01) and negative effects on coronavirus-related stress (p < 0.05) and pessimism (p < 0.001). In addition, optimism exerted a positive effect on self-regulation (p < 0.001) and a negative effect on coronavirus-related stress (p < 0.001), while pessimism exerted a negative effect on self-regulation (p < 0.01) and a positive effect on coronavirus-related stress (p < 0.001). Further analysis indicated that self-regulation had a negative effect on coronavirus-related stress (p < 0.05). These findings highlight the need for youth educational institutions to encourage adolescents to participate in sports and for organizing bodies to suggest various policies and provide education that can assist them in properly coping with and overcoming coronavirus-related stress by strengthening their optimistic attitude and self-regulation ability.

scholarly journals Mediating Effect of Sports Participation on the Relationship between Health Perceptions and Health Promoting Behavior in Adolescents

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (18) ◽  
pp. 6744
Author(s):  
Seung-Man Lee ◽  
Hyun-Chul Jeong ◽  
Wi-Young So ◽  
Hyun-Su Youn
Keyword(s):  
Reliability And Validity ◽  
Sports Participation ◽  
Mediating Effect ◽  
Health Perceptions ◽  
Preliminary Survey ◽  
Effect Analysis ◽  
Health Promoting ◽  
Individual Variables ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Positive Effect

The aim of this study was to verify the structural relationship between health perceptions, sports participation, and health promoting behavior in adolescents. A total of 507 adolescents living in Seoul, Republic of Korea, in 2020, participated in this study. This study was conducted using a preliminary survey and a main survey. In the preliminary survey, the reliability and validity of the scales used in this study were analyzed, and in the main survey, the relationships between individual variables were verified. Specifically, descriptive statistical analysis, path analysis, and mediating effect analysis were conducted in the main survey. The results of the study are as follows: first, health perceptions were found to have a positive effect on sports participation (p < 0.001). Furthermore, health perceptions were found to have no direct effect on health promoting behavior (p = 0.554), while sports participation was found to have a positive effect on health promoting behavior (p < 0.001). Additionally, sports participation completely mediated the relationship between health perceptions and health promoting behavior. Based on the results of this study, suggestions are presented on how to enhance health perceptions in adolescents who are in a critical period for forming healthy life habits, and to prepare measures to encourage sports participation.

Shaping social attitudes towards vaccination against COVID-19 and social assistance

2021 ◽  
Vol 36 (5) ◽  
pp. 21-38
Author(s):  
Natalia Pilarska
Keyword(s):  
Social Psychology ◽  
Positive Attitude ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Herd Immunity ◽  
Social Dilemma ◽  
Social Attitudes ◽  
Emotional Climate ◽  
Global Pandemic ◽  
Health Promoting ◽  
Use Of Knowledge

Introduction: Vaccination is becoming an increasingly common social dilemma and the reluctance to vaccinate is one of the biggest problems of medicine. This issue is particularly important during the implementation of the National Vaccination Program at the time of the global pandemic caused by the virus SARS-CoV-2. The aim of the study is to present the factors determining the process of shaping attitudes of people through the use of knowledge of social psychology in the field of popularizing vaccination, especially in groups requiring support, as well as to present the attitude of Poles towards vaccination against COVID-19. Method: An online survey carried out in January, 2021 on a group of 454 young adults of both sexes on attitudes towards vaccination against COVID-19. Results: The results of the study show that 68.3% of respondents are going to be vaccinated, 60.6% consider the vaccination against COVID-19 to be effective and 62.1% think that it is safe. In addition, this research paper discusses the component of the Poles’ social attitudes towards vaccination. The lowest results (61.40%) were for the emotional phase of positive attitude to COVID-19 vaccination. The highest results (82.05%) were noted in the cognitive phase of positive attitude towards the COVID-19 vaccination. Conclusion: The approaches of Poles differ in their attitudes related to the readiness to be vaccinated, although most of them express the need to be vaccinated. One of the most crucial tasks here is informing people about the effectiveness and safety of the vaccine, especially among young people who are undecided (12.1% of the respondents), to achieve the so-called herd immunity. And as it appears, the distrust towards vaccination is not dictated by the subjective lack of knowledge, but the emotional climate associated with it. That is why we need to formulate appropriate and precise health-promoting campaigns.

Relationship of lipid parameters and insulin resistance with bone health in South Korean adolescents

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Do-Hoon Kim ◽  
Sang-Woon Park ◽  
Dong-Wook Jung ◽  
Su-Jung Yoon ◽  
Kyungdo Han ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Insulin Resistance ◽  
Bone Health ◽  
Korean Adolescents ◽  
South Korean ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
Lipid Parameters
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