Physical Health Awareness among Primary School Students

By : Sapna Verma

Page No: 431-438

Abstract
The present study aims to investigate the difference that exists between physical health awareness of primary school students studying in private schools and government schools as well as between physical health awareness of male and female students. Total sample comprised of 120 students (60 from private schools and 60 from government schools; age range 9-10 years; Mage = 9.5 yrs). In each group there were 30 boys and 30 girls. Physical health awareness questionnaire for students developed by Singh was used to measure physical health awareness. Results were analyzed with the help of ANOVA and showed no significant difference between type of schools and gender. The obtained mean scores depict that physical health awareness of government school students are better than private school students. The obtained results further reveal that physical health awareness of overall girls are higher than overall boys.

Author :
Sapna Verma : Associate Professor — Deptt. of Psychology, D.A-V College, Kanpur, (U.P.), India.