A health training as a lifestyle element in the time of globalization. Studies of training participants in the context of selected psychological indices

Gula-Kubiszewska Halina, Debska Urszula, Kalwa Malgorzata, Starościak Wojciech. A health training as a lifestyle element in the time of globalization. Studies of training participants in the context of selected psychological indices. Journal of Health Sciences. 2014;4(13):116-129. ISSN 1429-9623 / 2300-665X. http://journal.rsw. edu.pl/index.php/JHS/article/view/2014%3B4%2813%29%3A116-129 http://ojs.ukw. edu.pl/index.php/johs/article/view/2014%3B4%2813%29%3A116-129 https://pbn.nauka. gov.pl/works/509915 DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13260 http://dx.doi. org/10.5281/zenodo.13260 The former journal has had 5 points in Ministry of Science and Higher Education of Poland parametric evaluation. Part B item 1107. (17.12.2013). © The Author (s) 2014; This article is published with open access at Licensee Open Journal Systems of Radom University in Radom, Poland Open Access. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial License which permits any noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author(s) and source are credited. This is an open access article licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits unrestricted, non commercial use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the work is properly cited. This is an open access article licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits unrestricted, non commercial use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the work is properly cited. Conflict of interest: None declared. Received: 10.09. 2014. Revised 15.09. 2014. Accepted: 04.11. 2014. A health training as a lifestyle element in the time of globalization. Studies of training participants in the context of selected psychological indices Halina Gula-Kubiszewska 1) , Urszula Debska 2) , Malgorzata Kalwa 1) , Wojciech Starościak 1) 1) University School of Physical Education in Wroclaw 2) Department of Psychology, University of Wroclaw Keywords : health training, health control placement, I corporeal, coherence, globalization Abstract: Times of globalization are characterized by an increased dynamic of changes, including first of all domains of ecology, economy, politics and also social and cultural areas. Unification of technology and culture as well as lifestyles, consumption models and health behaviours too are observed. Forced increased personal care about one's health, increasing possibilities of aiding health, e.g. through participating in specially prepared health training forms, taking care of figures by attending fashionable fitness and aerobic classes, fitness centres, performance sports, running etc. Our survey comprised 37 health training participants and it was conducted at the AWF in Wroclaw in 2013/2014. Assumed general objectives of training were: strengthening postural muscles, control over spine stabilizing techniques and also many intermediate goals. Moreover, the subjects set themselves personal goals of participation in training. The subjects were diagnosed in the context of selected psychological variables. The research was aimed at an initial determination of a psychological profile of participants in a long-term voluntary health training session. I-corporeal was diagnosed (attributional identity aspect), locus of health control, sense of coherence and global self-esteem [1] . Methods: health training session by M. Kalwa; questionnaires: MHLC, SOC-29, SES, Attributional Identity. It can be observed: the training was mostly attended by persons with a higher index of ‘I’-corporeal, higher BMI; they are satisfied with their figures and physicality. There are dependency between quality of life in the sphere of social integration; higher results in controllability and more possibilities to manage and influence their activities - more satisfied with lives in an area of activity: satisfaction and productivity. In order to obtain more justified results it would be advisable to carry out similar research on a greater population. [1] The research also comprised other psychological aspects, e.g. coping with stress and quality of life; results to follow in subsequent articles.