Relationship between Physical Activity, Mediterranean Diet and Emotional Intelligence in Spanish Primary Education Students
There is an international social concern about the low levels of physical activity among young people. It is essential to know what factors influence the practice of physical activity in order to design effective proposals for health promotion. The study aims to: (1) classify primary school students...
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| author | Daniel Sanz-Martín Félix Zurita-Ortega Pilar Puertas-Molero Rafael Caracuel-Cáliz José Manuel Alonso-Vargas Eduardo Melguizo-Ibáñez |
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| description | There is an international social concern about the low levels of physical activity among young people. It is essential to know what factors influence the practice of physical activity in order to design effective proposals for health promotion. The study aims to: (1) classify primary school students according to their levels of out-of-school physical activity, Mediterranean diet, emotional attention, emotional clarity and emotional repair; (2) analyse descriptively and correlationally the adolescents’ profiles of out-of-school physical activity, Mediterranean diet and emotional attention, clarity and repair. The study design was cross-sectional and descriptive–correlational. The sample consisted of 293 children aged 10–12 years in Granada (Spain). An ad hoc socio-academic questionnaire, the KIDMED test and the Trait Meta-Mood Scale (TMMS-24) were used for data collection. Four clusters were identified by the Ward’s method and participants were classified using the K-means method. Subsequently, cluster classification was validated through the MANOVA test (<i>F</i> (861) = 106.12; <i>p</i> ≤ 0.001; <i>f</i> = 1.95). The strongest correlation was obtained in cluster 1 between emotional clarity and emotional repair (<i>r</i> = 0.56; <i>p</i> ≤ 0.01). In conclusion, the mean values of time spent in out-of-school physical activity, Mediterranean diet, emotional attention, emotional clarity and emotional repair of students are adequate and vary according to sex. There are significant differences among the physical activity levels of all clusters, as well as among the emotional variables of attention, clarity and repair. In addition, the correlations between the variables studied vary in each cluster. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-58e422191cf54b37b80951b3f23d6f672023-11-19T16:05:17ZengMDPI AGChildren2227-90672023-10-011010166310.3390/children10101663Relationship between Physical Activity, Mediterranean Diet and Emotional Intelligence in Spanish Primary Education StudentsDaniel Sanz-Martín0Félix Zurita-Ortega1Pilar Puertas-Molero2Rafael Caracuel-Cáliz3José Manuel Alonso-Vargas4Eduardo Melguizo-Ibáñez5Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Universidad Isabel I, 09003 Burgos, SpainDepartment of Didactics Musical, Plastic and Corporal Expression, Faculty of Education Science, University of Granada, 18071 Granada, SpainDepartment of Didactics Musical, Plastic and Corporal Expression, Faculty of Education Science, University of Granada, 18071 Granada, SpainDepartment of Education, University of Almeria, 04120 Almeria, SpainDepartment of Didactics Musical, Plastic and Corporal Expression, Faculty of Education Science, University of Granada, 18071 Granada, SpainDepartment of Didactics Musical, Plastic and Corporal Expression, Faculty of Education Science, University of Granada, 18071 Granada, SpainThere is an international social concern about the low levels of physical activity among young people. It is essential to know what factors influence the practice of physical activity in order to design effective proposals for health promotion. The study aims to: (1) classify primary school students according to their levels of out-of-school physical activity, Mediterranean diet, emotional attention, emotional clarity and emotional repair; (2) analyse descriptively and correlationally the adolescents’ profiles of out-of-school physical activity, Mediterranean diet and emotional attention, clarity and repair. The study design was cross-sectional and descriptive–correlational. The sample consisted of 293 children aged 10–12 years in Granada (Spain). An ad hoc socio-academic questionnaire, the KIDMED test and the Trait Meta-Mood Scale (TMMS-24) were used for data collection. Four clusters were identified by the Ward’s method and participants were classified using the K-means method. Subsequently, cluster classification was validated through the MANOVA test (<i>F</i> (861) = 106.12; <i>p</i> ≤ 0.001; <i>f</i> = 1.95). The strongest correlation was obtained in cluster 1 between emotional clarity and emotional repair (<i>r</i> = 0.56; <i>p</i> ≤ 0.01). In conclusion, the mean values of time spent in out-of-school physical activity, Mediterranean diet, emotional attention, emotional clarity and emotional repair of students are adequate and vary according to sex. There are significant differences among the physical activity levels of all clusters, as well as among the emotional variables of attention, clarity and repair. In addition, the correlations between the variables studied vary in each cluster.https://www.mdpi.com/2227-9067/10/10/1663out-of-school physical activitydietemotional attentionemotional clarityemotional repairyoung people |
| spellingShingle | Daniel Sanz-Martín Félix Zurita-Ortega Pilar Puertas-Molero Rafael Caracuel-Cáliz José Manuel Alonso-Vargas Eduardo Melguizo-Ibáñez Relationship between Physical Activity, Mediterranean Diet and Emotional Intelligence in Spanish Primary Education Students Children out-of-school physical activity diet emotional attention emotional clarity emotional repair young people |
| title | Relationship between Physical Activity, Mediterranean Diet and Emotional Intelligence in Spanish Primary Education Students |
| title_full | Relationship between Physical Activity, Mediterranean Diet and Emotional Intelligence in Spanish Primary Education Students |
| title_fullStr | Relationship between Physical Activity, Mediterranean Diet and Emotional Intelligence in Spanish Primary Education Students |
| title_full_unstemmed | Relationship between Physical Activity, Mediterranean Diet and Emotional Intelligence in Spanish Primary Education Students |
| title_short | Relationship between Physical Activity, Mediterranean Diet and Emotional Intelligence in Spanish Primary Education Students |
| title_sort | relationship between physical activity mediterranean diet and emotional intelligence in spanish primary education students |
| topic | out-of-school physical activity diet emotional attention emotional clarity emotional repair young people |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/2227-9067/10/10/1663 |
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