Análise motivacional em estudantes do ensino médio na perspectiva da atividade física durante a pandemia da COVID-19

Abstract

In a pandemic period, students go through an adaptation period to be able to absorb all the content through online classes. This research aims to verify the performance and encouragement of physical education in this period of online studies from the perspective of the participating students, as well as their personal motivation to practice physical activities during this period of social isolation. The present study is classified as a qualitative research, of a transversal descriptive type, adopting the content analysis approach as its technique of analysis. The data were collected through a semi-structured survey applied in an online meeting with a total of 62 students in the second and third year of high school at Escola Estadual de Ensino Fundamental e Médio Professora Antonia Rangel de Farias, in the city of João Pessoa - Paraíba. When the data referring to the practice of physical activities before and during the Covid-19 pandemic were analyzed, it was observed that in both periods the number of people who practiced physical activities outnumbered those who did not. As for the category of the physical education at school as a motivational aspect to practice physical activities, before the pandemic it was noted that 50.0% of participants always practiced physical activities in physical education classes, while during the pandemic 53,2% felt that the physical education at school motivated them more or less to practice physical activities. Regarding the level of personal satisfaction with physical activity during the Covid-19 pandemic, the most frequently mentioned variable was "moderate" with 35.5% of the participants' representation. Concerning the motivation of the participants to perform physical activities, 77.4% expressed being motivated. However, it is concluded that most research participants were physically active and moderately satisfied with their personal performance for physical activity during the pandemic. Moreover, from the perspective of the participants, there was indecision about the function of encouraging the practice of physical activity in physical education at school in the pandemic context, though it is considered that Covid-19 directly interfered with this motivational aspect.