Sedentary employees and their attitude to sport

JUŘÍKOVÁ, Jana. Sedentary employees and their attitude to sport. In Arkadiusz Kaźmierczak, Jolanta Kowalska, Anny Mazorek-Szymala, Anna Makarczuk. Pedagogiczny wymiar kultury fizycznej i zdrowotnej w źyciu współczesnego człowieka. Łódź: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2016, p. 247-260. Edukacja, Kultura fizyczna. ISBN 978-83-8088-247-8. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.18778/8088-247-8.19.

Basic information

• Original name: Sedentary employees and their attitude to sport
• Authors: JUŘÍKOVÁ, Jana (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution).
• Edition: Łódź, Pedagogiczny wymiar kultury fizycznej i zdrowotnej w źyciu współczesnego człowieka, p. 247-260, 14 pp. Edukacja, Kultura fizyczna, 2016.
• Publisher: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego

Other information

• Original language: English
• Type of outcome: Chapter(s) of a specialized book
• Field of Study: Sport and leisure time activities
• Country of publisher: Poland
• Confidentiality degree: is not subject to a state or trade secret
• Publication form: printed version "print"
• WWW: URL
• RIV identification code: RIV/00216224:14510/16:00094056
• Organization unit: Faculty of Sports Studies
• ISBN: 978-83-8088-247-8
• Doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.18778/8088-247-8.19
• Keywords in English: body weight; body hight; body mass index (BMI); overweight; obesity; physical activity
• Tags: rivok

Abstract

This study has used the questionnaire method to find out whether and to which extent persons engaged in sedentary employment, devote their leisure time to physical activities. Respondents were 70 employees working in the office. Examination of anthropometric parameters revealed that 45.6 % of the respondents is overweight or obese, some persons confirmed overweight or obesity occurrence in the family history and in other family members. Merely 40% of respondents were satisfied their bodies. However, in their leisure time, most respondents perform sports activity only occasionally or not at all.