Technical Analysis and Development of Single Bamboo Floating from the Perspective of Education and Psychology
Physical activity, Cognitive and Psychosocial Functioning in a Preadolescent Sample
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The objective of this study was to analyze the differences in various variables of cognitive and psychosocial functioning, as well as physical condition between two groups of preteens depending on the amount of weekly physical practice they performed. The sample consisted of 149 participants (113 preadolescent) with ages between 10 to 13 years old (M= 11.60; DT= 0.49). Regarding the cognitive function analysis, it was used the D2 Attentiveness questionnaire, the interference and paths of the battery of Neuropsychological Evaluation of the Executive Functions in Children (ENFEN) and the tests of search of symbols and keys of the Intelligence Scale for children (WISC-IV). The tests or tools used to size up the psychosocial wellness were the Self-concept Questionnaire Form 5 (AF5) and the Self-efficacy scale for children (EAN). In regard to the physical condition, Speed test 5x1, Course Navette test and Horizontal jump test were used. The results discharged by the research showed highest results in physical condition (e.g., VO2max= p < .001; d’ Cohen= 0.85, 95% IC [0.51, 1.18]), cognitive (e.g., Processing speed= p< .05; d’ Cohen= 0.44, 95% IC [0.11, 0.77]) and psychosocial functioning (e.g., Physical self-concept= p< .001; d’ Cohen= 0.69, 95% IC [0.35, 1.02]) in the participants who perform more physical activity per week. These results are congruent with previous research and suggest the need to promote physical practice among children and adolescents for their health and well-being implications.
María Dolores Molina Poveda, Eduardo Galak
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The advent of cinema brought with it its use as a propaganda device with which to transmit ideals and doctrines. As a result, newsreels and cinema documentaries were born with the aim of showing the «most relevant» news of the country and abroad, the former with a shorter duration. In this study, the Spanish NO-DO and «Sucesos Argentinos» are used as primary sources to interpret the images and imaginaries that were projected between 1943 and 1955 on female physical culture. The intention is to understand the official discourse of both political regimes on what Argentinean and Spanish society should be like, especially by questioning those meanings about women. In total, 69 issues of NO-DO and 14 editions of «Sucesos Argentinos» have been found which aim to show female physical culture in this period. The female physical culture shown in both newsreels was aimed at strengthening women’s bodies so that they could carry out their «natural functions» (mother, wife, housewife), as well as highlighting their «inferiority» in relation to men through lower impact activities and the homogenization of bodies through clothing, and the performance of the same exercises in synchrony. And all this in countries with different regimes, but which, in the end, coincided.
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female physical culture, NO-DO, Sucesos Argentinos, propaganda, audio-visual images
