Aptidão física e percepção de competência de escolares

Abstract

The objective of this study was to verify the physical fitness and the competence perception of scholars. Especially, to verify if relationship exists between physical fitness and the perception of athletic competence. They were appraised 192 scholars, from 8 to 17 years, of both sexes, contained by age. The physical fitness was analyzed so much in relation to the health with relationship to the sporting installment. In the physical fitness related to the health, the scholars met eutrophic, meantime in the other variables of physical fitness they pondered below the healthy zone. With relationship to the sporting installment, levels weak and very weak of physical fitness prevailed. It was observed that in the physical fitness of the group, the boys had better acting in relation to the girls starting from the 12 years, increasing with the age. With relationship to the competence perception, he/she identified high perception in all the sub-scales, being the percentile largest in the age group of the 8 to the 11 years. For the behavior of the averages of competence perception, in spite of the boys to have medium adult in most of the age groups, that difference was only significant in the athletic competence, in the age group of the 15 to the 17 years. For the boys the age was not an important factor, however, for the girls it was significant in the school competence, that was larger of the 8 to the 11 years, and in the social acceptance it was larger in the group of the 15 to the 17 years. With relationship to the relationship between physical fitness and competence perception, in spite of there being a tendency of the scholars that you/they had better acting they also have a higher average of perception of athletic competence, the statistical values were not significant.