유아 건강 생활습관 및 신체활동 가이드라인 개발을 위한 기초적 연구

The purpose of this study is to find out young children’s basic life style, exercise capacity and formation of postures, analyze them and provide fundamental data for the development of guidelines related to their life style and physical activities. The subject of study is 288―144 children aged from three to five and 144 parents in P city. The results are as follows. First, their basic life style by gender had a significant difference in hours per day of computer usage(p<.05), their basic life style by age had a statistically significant difference in the hour of rising(p<.05), bedtime(p<.01) and hours of sleep(p<.001). Second, their exercise capacity by gender showed a statistically significant difference in flexibility(p<.05), quickness(p<.05), balance on the right(p<.001). Their exercise capacity by age showed a statistically significant difference in all the exercise capacities such as total body endurance(p<.01), muscular strength on the right(p<.001), muscular strength on the left(p<.001), flexibility(p<.01), quickness(p<.001), flexibility duration of flight(p<.001), balance on the right(p<.001) and balance on the left(p<.001). Third, in the front left-right balance test, there was no significant difference in front left-right tilt angle, the distance of unbalance on the left and the tilted direction of entire body by gender and age, and only the tilted distance of the entire body on the side(right) showed a statistically significant difference(p<.01 ) in the s ide(right) balance test. These results show that three-year-old children get up and go to bed early, four-year-old children get up late and go to bed early, and five-year-old children get up and go to bed late. With regard to their exercise capacity, there was a gender difference in flexibility, quickness and balance on the right, and all the exercise capacities gradually increased as they got older. Third, as they got older, the direction of entire body(to the right) tilted forward and became a front posture.