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Abstracts from the 18Th Annual Scientific Conference Of MEETING ABSTRACTS Abstracts from the 18th Annual Scientific Conference of Montenegrin Sports Academy and 16th FIEP European Congress “Sport, Physical Education, Physical Activity and Health: Contemporary perspectives”: Dubrovnik, Croatia. 8-11 April 2021 Edited by Dusko Bjelica1, Stevo Popovic1, Selcuk Akpinar2, Dario Novak3 Affiliations: 1University of Montenegro, Faculty for Sport and Physical Education, Niksic, Montenegro, 2Nevşehir Hacı Bektaş Veli University, Department of Physical Education and Sports, Nevşehir, Turkey, 3University of Zagreb, Faculty of Kinesiology, Zagreb, Croatia Correspondence: D. Bjelica, University of Montenegro, Faculty for Sport and Physical Education, Narodne omladine bb, Niksic, Montenegro, E-mail: [email protected] @MJSSMontenegro MEETING ABSTRACTS FROM MSA-FIEP DUBROVNIK 2021 CONFERENCE http://mjssm.me/?sekcija=article&artid=501 Cite this article: Bjelica, D., Popovic, S., Akpinar, S., & Novak, D. (2021). Abstracts from the 18th Annual Scientific Conference of Montenegrin Sports Academy and 16th FIEP European Congress “Sport, Physical Education, Physical Activity and Health: Contemporary perspectives": Dubrovnik, Croatia. 8-11 April 2021. Montenegrin Journal of Sports Science and Medicine, 10(S1), 5-19. doi: 10.26773/mjssm.210401 Invited speakers (OR 1.11 [1.06-1.15]) and male gender (OR 1.71 [1.13-2.57]) direct- ly predicted sufficient physical activity. Any significant moderation effects (p > 0.05) of environmental characteristics were found for the S1 relationship between social capital, motivation factors and MVPA. ECOLOGICAL APPROACH TO HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS The evidence of positive indirect mediation effect was found in all PHYSICAL ACTIVITY: THE MEANING OF ENVIRONMENTAL, five models for social capital components. Findings provide support INTERPERSONAL AND PERSONAL FACTORS for the direct and indirect pathways from social capital to MVPA. Brigita Mieziene1 Future interventions should focus on strengthening physical activity 1Lithuanian Sports University, Kaunas, Lithuania motivation by encouraging the development of social network and Correspondence: Brigita Mieziene ([email protected]) social participation as well as family, neighborhood, and school so- cial capital. Young people are not sufficiently physically active. The socio-ecolog- ical model (SEM) enables for a search of the modifiable factors in the specific populations, as it allows to consider factors laying on S2 different levels of individuals’ life as well as interplay of those factors. PHYSICAL EDUCATION IN EUROPE: PRELIMINARY FINDINGS The aim of this study was to examine the direct and indirect asso- FROM THE 4TH WORLDWIDE SURVEY OF QUALITY PHYSICAL ciations of factors laying on different levels within SEM with high EDUCATION school students’ leisure time moderate to vigorous physical activi- Dario Novak1 ty (MVPA). This cross-sectional population-based study included 1University of Zagreb, Faculty of Kinesiology, Zagreb, Croatia 1386 students from 14 to 19 years old, mean 16.14. Physical activity, Correspondence: Dario Novak ([email protected]) neighborhood physical activity recourses, neighborhood safety, so- cial capital, physical activity motivation and sociodemographic fac- This presentation draws from the 4th Worldwide Survey of Qual- tors were evaluated. Logistic regression, mediation and moderation ity Physical Education (QPE). The Survey is being administered analyses were performed predicting leisure MVPA. Greater social at both policy-level and at school-level by UNESCO and the In- participation (OR 1.03 [1.01-1.05]), higher relative autonomy index ternational Federation of Physical Education (FIEP). The Survey Received: 15 March 2021 | Accepted after revision: 13 April 2021 | First published online: 20 April 2021 © 2021 by the author(s). License MSA, Podgorica, Montenegro. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY). Conflict of interest: None declared. DOI 10.26773/mjssm.210401 5 MEETING ABSTRACTS FROM MSA-FIEP DUBROVNIK 2021 CONFERENCE | D. BJELICA ET AL. has been designed to assess quality physical education policy and sports value of physical education has influenced the personnel practice, as well as to address basic data gaps. Data collected as cultivation mode and the basic trend of school physical educa- part of this survey will inform the development of international tion reform. "Four in one" as the new orientation of the concept indicators on QPE which aim to: a) enhance QPE policy-prac- of physical education in China, which is a logical and scientific tice coherence between countries and regions; b) provide QPE physical education methodology, a transformation of physical ed- datasets disaggregated by gender, disability, country/region and ucation research paradigm, and a conceptual innovation of per- thematic area; c) promote data-driven investment in QPE (at sonnel cultivation mode. national, regional and international levels). The purpose of this keynote presentation is to present the European perspective of school-level PE as well as developments since the last Survey. Oral presentations S3 O1 ANTHROPOMETRIC PARAMETERS AS INDICATORS OF TOP THE MEANING OF ATTITUDES TOWARDS PHYSICAL SPORT - PROJECT OF FACULTY FOR SPORT AND PHYSICAL EDUCATION FOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS’ MOTIVATION EDUCATION OF UNIVERSITY OF MONTENEGRO AND REGULAR PHYSICAL ACTIVITY 1 1 1 2 Jovan Gardasevic1,2, Dusko Bjelica1,2, Ivan Vasiljevic1,2, Bojan Masanovic1,2 Arunas Emeljanovas , Brigita Mieziene , Laura Tumynaite , Ichiro Kawachi 1 2 1University of Montenegro, Faculty for Sport and Physical Education, Niksic, Lithuanian Sports University, Kaunas, Lithuania, Harvard University, Montenegro, 2Montenegrin Sports Academy, Podgorica, Montenegro School of Public Health, Boston, MA, United States of America Correspondence: Jovan Gardasevic ([email protected]) Correspondence: Arunas Emeljanovas ([email protected]) The aim of this project is to build a large database of anthropo- For enabling pathways to health through behavior, attitudes to- metric characteristics and body composition in elite athletes in wards physical education (PE) and motivation towards physical different sports disciplines. In all measurements, we used the activity (PA) raise intense interest as the important determinants same battery of 11 variables evaluated anthropometric character- to reduce physical inactivity. The aim of this study is to investigate istics and body composition: body height, body weight, triceps direct and indirect relationships among attitudes towards physical skinfold, biceps skinfold, skinfold of the back, abdominal skin- education and high school students’ regular physical activity, ex- fold, upper leg skinfold, lower leg skinfold, body mass index, fat ploring the role of motivation to be physically active as a mediator. percentage and muscle mass. Today, as a result we have several It was hypothesized that regular physical activity will be related in- thousand measured top athletes and the largest database of these directly to affective and cognitive attitudes towards physical educa- variables in the region. Based on the obtained data, scientific pa- tion through self-determined motivation for physical activity. Study pers are published in Web of Science. These papers are dealing included 919 high school students. Among them 44.6 percent were with comparisons among athletes in the same or different sports boys. The age of these students varied from 15 to 18 years, with the disciplines, as well as making model characteristics in specific mean age of 16.26±1.29. The attitudes towards physical education sports, since the subject of measurements were the best players in were measured by instrument contained 20 items anchored on two the world in their sports. attitude components (enjoyment and usefulness). Regular PA was evaluated by several items from HBSC questionnaire. Motivation towards physical activity was measured by BREQ-2 questionnaire. S4 Results show that controlling for gender, enjoyment in PE is related RENAISSANCE OF SPORTS VALUE AND INNOVATION OF to intrinsic motivation, which is directly related to regular PA. Per- PERSONNEL CULTIVATION MODE ception of usefulness in PE is related to identify behavior regulation Bute1,2, Huang Huiqing1, Min Sicheng1, Meng Di1 and it in turn is associated with regular PA. While a motivation 1Hunan Normal University, Faculty for Sport and Physical Education, negatively predicts regular PA. Affective attitudes towards physical Hunan, China, 2Hunan Sports Industry Research Institute, Hunan, China education enhance intrinsic PA behavior regulation, while cogni- Correspondence: Bu Te ([email protected]) tive attitudes raise identified PA behavior regulation. Both of these self-determined behavior regulations predict regular PA. General Secretary Xi Jinping attaches great importance to school physical education and physical health of teenagers. He proposed the “Four in one” as the new orientation of school physical edu- O2 cation which specific objectives are: “Enjoy fun, Strengthen phy- THE ROLE OF UNIVERSITIES IN COUNTRIES' SUCCESS IN sique, Sanity personalities and Exercise will”. “Four in one” is the ELITE SPORT role reorientation of School Physical Education objectives. It is the Nadim Nassif1 new connotation of the new position of school physical education, 1Notre Dame University – Louaize (NDU), Department of Psychology, the change and Renaissance of sports value theory: from technol- Education
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