Analysis of reasons of students’ low physical activity

Abstract

Physical culture, in public consciousness, is perceived as a collection of socially regulated activities, integrated in educational and social processes of young generation and as a creative, recreational and prophylactic kind of activity which allows achieving proper health and physical activity skills level. The study covered 3620 people, who are all Szczecin first and second year students who have physical education classes compulsory in their curriculum. The study was carried out in five universities and was based on the diagnostic probe by means of the questionnaire: "Participating in different physical activities" which included close questions of disjunctive and alternative character and open questions of reference character in order to obtain the respondents’ subjective evaluation of the phenomena.