TY - JOUR AU - Cholewa, Cholewa AU - Witkowski, Miłosz AU - Wąsik, Jacek AU - Góra, Tomasz PY - 2020/06/30 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Declared and actual students’ physical activity JF - Physical Education of Students JA - PES VL - 24 IS - 3 SE - Articles DO - 10.15561/20755279.2020.0302 UR - https://sportedu.org.ua/index.php/PES/article/view/1140 SP - 135-140 AB - <p><em>Background and Study Aim.</em> Regular and reasonable physical activity seems to be one of the most recommended health-promoting human behaviours. The aim of the work was to determine the relationship between the declared and actual level of students' physical activity.</p><p><em>Material and Methods.</em> 118 students from the faculty of physical education aged 22.62±1.93 years participated in the study (61 men aged 23.12±1.78 years and 57 women aged 22.08±1.39 years).&nbsp;To determine the level of physical activity, the International Physical Activity Questionnaire (IPAQ) and the three-axis ActiGraph GT3X accelerometer were used in order to record physical activity parameters and the amount of energy expenditure.</p><p><em>Results.</em> The largest absolute difference without gender division was found in the average duration of physical activity in the medium intensity zone (16.83%). Differences in the level of weekly level of physical activity were noted in the whole group (13.79%; p&lt;0.01) as well as in the group of women (relative difference 18.07%, p&lt;0.01) and in the group of men (9.74%, p&lt;0.01). A high correlation was observed between weekly energy expenditure calculated on the basis of declared values and the actual energy expenditure (r=0.94; p&lt;0.05).</p><p><em>Conclusions.</em> Research carried out as part of the study showed that students declare a higher level of physical activity compared to the actual performed activity. On this basis, it can be concluded that there is a risk of error in assessing the volume of physical activity in a survey. The study showed significant gender diversity in the frequency and duration of physical activity undertaken by the respondents.</p> ER -