(2017) Science and education, 6, 17-22. Odessa.

Larysa Petrychenko,
Doctor of Pedagogy, associate professor, first vice-rector,
Kharkiv Academy of Humanities and Pedagogy,
7, Rustaveli Lane, Kharkiv, Ukraine

CURRENT STATE AND POSSIBILITIES OF FORMING HEALTHY
LIFESTYLE AMONG STUDENTS OF ADOLESCENT AND YOUTH AGE
UNDER CONDITIONS OF SOCIAL PROBLEMS AGGRAVATION IN UKRAINE

The paper presents the author’s attitude to solving one of the present-day key problems – the formation of healthy lifestyle of students of adolescent and youth age. The aim of the paper is to substantiate the criterial and diagnostic basis, and to present the results of experimental study of the issue of forming healthy lifestyle among adolescents and youth studying at the teacher training college. The following methods were applied in the pedagogical study: observation of students’ behaviour, conversations, questionnaires using original inventories for students and pedagogical staff, questioning according to the author’s procedure. The pedagogical experiment involved 678 students obtaining education at teacher training college of Kharkiv Academy of Humanities and Pedagogy from the first to the fourth years of study, aged 15-19 years as well as 127 representatives of the teaching staff. According to the research outcomes, there is the need to intensify pedagogical staff’s efforts in terms of forming healthy lifestyle among students of adolescent and youth age. These efforts should be aimed at instilling certain behaviours by means of providing the students with the information concerning importance of health, attitude towards their own and other people’s health; at the formation of knowledge, abilities and skills, personal values, motives, interests related to health preservation and promotion; at the stimulation of students’ activities associated with preservation of their own health.

healthy lifestyle formation, adolescents and youth, pedagogical education, criteria for experimental study of the formation of students’ healthy lifestyles.

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