| Abstract [eng] |
The Master’s Degree Thesis Summary In the present thesis, there is performed the theoretical analysis of the concept of the effect of applied physical and sports activities on improvement of the life quality for the disabled and of the peculiarities of the applied physical and sports activities of people with vision disabilities. There is raised a hypothesis, that applying physical and sports activities, it is possible to improve the psychosocial health and rates of biosocial skills and physical fitness of people with vision disabilities. The hypothesis is raised with reference to the conceptual statement: active physical activities and sports have positive effect on comprehensive development of the person. Using the method of questionnaire survey, the research was performed. Its objective was to identify the peculiarities of the effect of the applied physical and sports activities in the aspect of life quality improvement for people with vision disabilities. The statistical (descriptive of frequencies, averages) analysis of data was performed. 101 respondents with vision disabilities participated in the research. 55 of them went in for sports actively and 46 – inactively. In the empiric part of the thesis, there are considered the health, physical activeness, psychosocial health, agents of socialisation, approach to the disability people with vision disabilities, who go in for sports, as well as the efficiency of the measures of the applied physical and sports activities. The major conclusions of the empiric research are the following: 1. People with vision disabilities, who go in for sports, satisfy one of the major social needs – the need for communication – by sports activities; it, in turn, improves their life quality. 2. The disabled, who go in for sports inactively, asses their health, physical activity and physical potential lower than the ones who go in for sports actively. The people with vision disabilities, who go in for sports actively, spend less time without physical load, they are active physically more frequently within a week than the ones, who go in for sports inactively. 3. The most significant person, who helped to integrate into social life, was a person having an analogical physical disability for people with vision disabilities, who go in for sports actively. And for the ones, who go in for sports inactively, such persons were parents and (or) relatives. 4. Using applied physical and sports activities, the people with vision disabilities, who go in for sports actively, have better opportunities to integrate into society. The people with vision disabilities, who go in for sports inactively, who participate in sports activities irregularly meet such major difficulties of physical and sports activities interfering their integration into the society as unsuited physical environment, insufficiently developed transport facilities, lack of sports bases. 5. The hypothesis that it is possible to improve the psychosocial health and the rates of biosocial skills and physical fitness of people with vision disabilities, applying applied physical and sports activities. The people with vision disabilities, who go in for sports actively, gain positive effect on their life quality from active physical activities and sports. |
