دلالة مؤشرات نمط الإيقاع الحيوي على بعض القدرات البدنية و الفسيولوجية و التحصيل الدراسي لطلاب جامعة الملك فهد للبترول و المعادن

Abstract EN

Background: Bio-rhythm pattern is the science which studies the nature’s vital rhythm patterns in the living organism globally.

It has been proved by scientist that human beings are affected by the Bio-rhythm pattern daily, weekly, monthly and yearly.

These patterns affect the total humanity at all times and on all fronts like the physical, psychological, social components and the physiological variables like blood pressure, heart rate, hormones, etc.

Besides, according to the change of the Bio-rhythm pattern many physical variables like muscular strength, muscular endurance, speed, and coordination also are influenced by them thereby affecting the ability of the person to perform in various sports activities.

The current research aims to make use of the Bio-rhythm pattern as an indicator to select the most suitable time for the students accordingly for physical education and other classes.

This can be possible if the students select his class schedule according to his own Bio-rhythm pattern which will result in his attention on all fronts to uplift his Intelligence quotient, and academic achievement.

Hence this will help to find the relationship between Bio-rhythm patterns and physical, physiological variables and the academic achievement among the KFUPM students community.

Method: A sample of 356 male students of PE course at KFUPM aged 18-21 years was randomly selected as subjects.

From the above sample 178 subjects belonging to morning session between 8 AM to 12 Noon were separated and remaining 178 subjects having classes in the afternoon session between 1 PM to 5 PM were taken for the study.

Ostburg questionnaire was administered to all the students and responses collected for the analysis of the data.

Further to this some physical and physiological test were conducted to establish the relationship among the morning and evening session students.

Mean, SD and ANOVA were the statistical tools used for the study.

Results: The results showed some very interesting observations between the morning and afternoon groups.

There were significant differences for the students of morning classes who had the bio-rhythm pattern suitable for the session but some in the group did not match the classes of morning time and some had irregular for the morning time and vice-versa.

Further to this the morning pattern was superior to the irregular pattern in muscular strength, explosive power, speed, agility and academic achievement.

In the evening session the evening pattern and irregular superior to morning pattern in Physical, physiological variables and academic achievements.

Conclusion: It was concluded that the students who has his bio-rhythm pattern in the morning should register online to the morning classes and the evening pattern students should register in the evening session classes to perform the best both physically, physiologically and academically .