مستوى النشاط البدني لدى تلاميذ مرحلة التعليم الثانوي في ضوء متغيرات الجنس و المستوى الدراسي و الممارسة بحصة التربية البدنية و مؤشر الكتلة الجسمية

Abstract AR

The study aimed to identify the physical activity level (PAL) among high school students, in view of the sex (S), class levels (CLs), physical education practice (PEP) and body mass index (BMI) variables of some high schools in Middle and East of Algeria.

The sample chosen randomly, and included 1825 students (1040 females, 785 males) aged between (15- 19 years), taken from the three classes of high school education.

To gather data, the physical activity questionnaire of adolescent (PAQ-A) had been applied to measure PAL, and anthropometric measures such: Hight, weight to identify students BMI.

The results revealed that the PAL was above average in BMI, CLs and practice among male students.

While, among females was below average.

Also, the results showed a significant deference between PAL by sex, in favor of males, and CLs among all students in favor of first and second year of education, and PEP in favor of practice.

On the other hand, in BMI, the significant deference was only between PAL means among male students without females in Underweight and overweight students, in favor of underweight students.