Physical culture, health and a healthy lifestyle in the views of university students

Abstract

The article presents the results of a study of university students’ ideas about physical culture, health and a healthy lifestyle; the results of the study showed that the ideas of a healthy lifestyle among the interviewed students reflect the most common images in the mass consciousness and existing in everyday representations - “physical culture and sports” and “rejection of bad habits”. The social (category “possession of safe behavior skills”) and psychological aspects (category “positive emotions”) of ideas about a healthy lifestyle are present in a tenth of the surveyed students of the sample. In our opinion, the physical, social and psychological aspects of health and healthy life are little known to respondents and require the involvement of specialists to reduce the gap in respondents’ knowledge about these aspects of health.