Manzano-Sánchez David, Gutiérrez-Espinoza Héctor, López-Gil José Francisco
Department of Didactics of Musical, Plastic and Corporal Expression, Faculty of Education and Psychology, University of Extremadura, Badajoz, Spain.
Análisis Comportamental de la Actividad Física y el Deporte (ACAFYDE), Universidad de Extremadura, Badajoz, Spain.
Front Psychol. 2024 Jul 12;15:1396163. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1396163. eCollection 2024.
Overalll, muscular fitness and academic performance are two variables widely studied in the literature. However, evidence on the relationship between muscular fitness and specific school subjects (e.g., physical education), as well as their differences by sex, is scarce.
The aim of this study was to examine the associations between muscular fitness and overall academic performance and between muscular fitness and specific subjects (i.e., language, math, foreign language, and physical education) in a sample of secondary Spanish school students.
For the present study, a sample of 766 students (45% boys, aged 12-17 years). From the Eating Healthy and Daily Life Activities (EHDLA) study was used. The Assessing the Levels of Physical Activity and Fitness (ALPHA-FIT) battery was used to determine handgrip strength and lower body muscular strength. The performance of the different school subjects was provided by the school centers.
Overall, for both boys and girls, higher muscular fitness was associated with greater academic results, with the greatest differences in physical education. However, only significant differences were identified for girls.
Global muscular fitness is important for contributing to cognitive development, both in physical education and in the rest of the subjects of the educational curriculum for adolescents. At the same time, although the association appears to follow the same trend for both sexes, the results seem more evident for girls.
总体而言，肌肉适能和学业成绩是文献中广泛研究的两个变量。然而，关于肌肉适能与特定学校科目（如体育）之间的关系以及按性别划分的差异的证据却很少。
本研究旨在调查西班牙中学生样本中肌肉适能与总体学业成绩之间以及肌肉适能与特定科目（即语言、数学、外语和体育）之间的关联。
在本研究中，使用了来自“健康饮食与日常生活活动”（EHDLA）研究的766名学生样本（45%为男生，年龄在12至17岁之间）。使用“评估身体活动和适能水平”（ALPHA - FIT）测试组来确定握力和下肢肌肉力量。不同学校科目的成绩由学校中心提供。
总体而言，无论男生还是女生，较高的肌肉适能都与更好的学业成绩相关，体育科目中的差异最大。然而，仅在女生中发现了显著差异。
整体肌肉适能对于青少年体育课程以及教育课程其他科目的认知发展都很重要。同时，尽管这种关联在两性中似乎遵循相同趋势，但结果在女孩中似乎更为明显。
