Prerequisites of formation of physical culture and sports activity of children of secondary school age
The article presents the results of a pilot study of middle school age pupils' relationship to health, their awareness of the healthy lifestyle's, physical education's and sports' importance, as well as the dominant motivational and semantic foundations of education. The sample included adolescents (N=131) from 13 to 15 years old. Teenagers were offered a questionnaire " schoolchildren's health and behaviour" consisting of 82 questions. For statistical processing of the questionnaire data, the frequency of occurrence and Udny Yule colligation coefficient were calculated. In describing the results of the study groups were divided on two grounds: 1) the class of training (7th, 8th and 9th forms); 2) by gender. Subjects are generally satisfied with the lessons of physical culture, with the greatest satisfaction showed by pupils from the form 8. Boys in the form 9 are the ones who most often declaretheir need for physical activity. According to the boys in the 9th form, they have the most developed strength, in the 7th and the 8th form, endurance. Girls of the 7th and the 9th form isolated existence of the speed; of the 8th form, endurance. In general, pupils describe their physical development harmoniously: average height, normal weight, good figure. Schoolchildren highly appreciated their condition by the parameter "health and self-esteem", and this trend persists regardless of the age of the respondents. In the samples of boys and girls, we revealed significant links between indicators of physical fitness and knowledge in the field of physical culture and sports, motives of physical culture and sports activity, interest in physical education lessons and its importance; the importance of psychological support of students and support parents, teat parents, tea physical-sportive activity and one of friends is found out.