Physical activity and styles of coping with the stress of people aged 18-30

Piepiora Paweł, Jagoda Alicja, Urban Jerzy. Physical activity and styles of coping with the stress of people aged 18-30. Journal of Education, Health and Sport. 2019;9(7):36-40. eISSN 2391-8306. DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3265464

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Received: 20.06.2019. Revised: 25.06.2019. Accepted: 02.07.2019.

Physical activity and styles of coping with the stress of people aged 18-30

Paweł Piepiora¹*, Alicja Jagoda¹, Jerzy Urban²

Afiliation:

¹ University School of Physical Education in Wrocław,

² Bushidan Institute of Martial Arts

*Corresponding autor: Paweł Piepiora, University School of Physical Education in Wrocław, Faculty of Sport Sciences, Chair of Sport Didactics, I. J. Paderewskiego 35 street, Multifunctional Sports Hall room 73, 51-612 Wrocław, Poland, phone: +48 605 39 54 32, e-mail: pawel.piepiora@awf.wroc.pl

The authors declare that the test procedures comply with ethical standards. There are no conflicts of interest between the authors.

Summary

Aim: The aim of the research was to examine and demonstrate whether there are links between physical activity and styles of coping with stress, and to estimate with what force these possible relationships are manifested. Material and methods: 60 people aged 18-30 were randomly selected for the study. The first group consists of physically active persons, in which there were 12 women and 18 men, the second group were physically inactive persons with 21 women and 9 men. CISS was used - Questionnaire Coping in Stress Situations as a research method. The study used the Spearman's rank correlation as the basic statistical method. Results: Checked how physical activity correlates with a given style of coping with stress. The results of styles coping with stress within two groups of variables were compared. Conclusions: The results of the CISS questionnaire showed that physically active people differ from physically inactive people in terms of styles of coping with stress within the style of a focused search for social contacts.

Key words: health psychology, sport psychology, stress, physical activity.