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Pre-Service University Training, Body Expression and Self-Concept
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: Received: 9 November 2022 / Approved: 14 November 2022 / Online: 14 November 2022 (06:23:17 CET)
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Romero-Martín, M.R.; Caballero-Julia, D. Pre-Service University Training, Body Expression and Self-Concept. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2022, 19, 16218. Romero-Martín, M.R.; Caballero-Julia, D. Pre-Service University Training, Body Expression and Self-Concept. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2022, 19, 16218.
Abstract
Body Expression (BE) has been defined in the past decades as a discipline within Physical Education (PE) with very particular characteristics and a strong emotional component. In this study, a programme of this discipline was applied to university Physical Activity and Sports Sciences (PASS) students from six consecutive academic years: three prior to and three during the pandemic. A pre-post design was used to determine how the BE programme affected the university students' self-concept (SC). To do so, a questionnaire with a multidimensional approach to this construct was administered, whose dimensions were closely related to the BE programme's characteristics. The results revealed significant improvements in the final SC, compared to the initial SC. Men reported lower SC values than women before the programme implementation, but higher at the end. Therefore, the change was larger in men, so the programme may have had an equalising effect between groups. It was also verified that the pandemic had particularly affected women.
Keywords
body expression; self-concept; pre-service training; physical activity; physical education; COVID-19 pandemic; emotions
Subject
Social Sciences, Education
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