| Abstract [eng] |
The relevance of the research. A growing interest of women in various forms of physical activity, their influence on health and body image has been noticed recently. Women’s discontent with their physical activity, body and its image is constantly growing. That is why it is important to analyze the exercise objectives, motives, opportunities of women who prefer different forms of physical activity. The subject of the research. The expression of women’s organized and independent physical self-education and the peculiarities of its development. The aim of the research. To analyze the expression of physical self-education and opportunities of its development peculiar to women who go in for sports voluntarily and constantly during their free time. The methodological base of the research: attitudes of humanistic psychology, essential propositions of health, movements, learning, adaptation and development theories. The participants of the research: women (n=152) who have realized directions of gentle fitness (n=58), bodybuilding (n=36), aerobics (n=58), organized and independent physical self-education. |
