The purpose of this study was to determine some parental predictors of physical inactivity in Spanish adolescents. The sample comprised 1,978 children, aged between 12 and 16 years. A quantitative and qualitative technical triangulation was employed. The study analyzed data of the parents' educational level, the importance they grant to physical-sport activities, and their physical-sport practi...

BACKGROUND Teachers in Ontario are expected to implement the physical activity guidelines in the health and physical education (HPE) curriculum document that was introduced in 1998. This study examined Toronto teachers' perspective on barriers to implementing these guidelines. METHODS Forty-five teachers from five Toronto elementary schools in which generalist classroom teachers provide physi...

World Health Organization theme for the year 2002 says, ‘move for health’, which emphasizes on the role of physical activity in the healthy living of an individual. During these physical activities, injuries to the face and trauma to primary and permanent teeth are common. Since a high proportion of dental trauma occurres during physical education classes in school , it would be desirable for p...

The aim of this research has been to help improve the performance evaluation of physical education teachers by identifying factors involved in such a task and exploring their relevance through a survey of such teachers in Tehran. A cluster sample of 384 physical education teachers was selected from among all such teachers in Tehran’s 19 districts divided into five geographic areas. Data was col...

organizational citizenship behavior is defined as completely voluntary behaviors which staffs conducted them beyond their vocation and task expectations and organizational justice is served as how to deal with staff so that they can feel fair action including understanding of justice in payments and equality in organizational procedures and intra-personal behaviors in organization. the principl...

objective: the purpose of this study is to evaluate the relationship between perceived organizational justice and organizational commitment of physical education teachers in west azerbaijan province. methods: research method is descriptive-correlation conducted using the field method. statistical population includes physical education teachers in west azerbaijan which are 1091 persons. the samp...

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the relationship between academic achievement and physical fitness in California schools. Data from the academic year 2004-2005 Fitnessgram were compared to reading, mathematics and science scores on the California Standards test (CST) of 253 elementary schools in the Orange County School District. Physical education teachers from the 10 lowest scoring ...

the purpose of the present study was to investigate mental health status in physical education teachers (pet) and non-physical education teachers (npet) based on demographic characteristics. 403 teachers consisting of 105 pets and 298 npets from west azerbaijan province were selected by multiphase cluster sampling method and completed mental health inventory (mhi). the results of the study reve...

the purpose of this research was to investigate the relationship between job involvement and organizational climate in physical education teachers in high schools of ahvaz city. the statistical population consisted of all male and female physical education teachers in the city of ahvaz who were selected as the sample of this study (n=n=146). methodology of this field study was descriptive – cor...

This study explored the reasons for pre-service teachers choosing to specialise in primary physical education and how these choices related to their motivation. Pre-service teachers who then elected to specialise in primary physical education (n = 248) completed the Attractors and Facilitators for Physical Education (AFPE) questionnaire and the Academic Motivation Scale (AMS). The main reasons ...