Behavioral attitudes towards physical education and sports as a basis for maintaining health

the article is devoted to the importance of forming correct behavioral attitudes in people in the context of their attitude to maintaining their health through physical education and sports. The methods of bibliographic and system analysis made it possible to identify the main directions in the development of modern approaches to health preservation, including issues of assessing the importance of regular physical education and sports for maintaining one's own health. Weak attention of people of different generations to health preservation, health-improving physical education and sports is shown. It is noted that excessive and uncontrolled "exploitation" of one's health, including in the process of excessive physical activity during professional sports or during an excessively long passive state (sitting at a computer, playing on the phone, office work, etc.) is harmful to human health both now and in the future. Based on a sociological survey conducted among students of Yekaterinburg universities in the winter of 2025, the preferences of young people in value attitudes towards health preservation and physical education and health activities were identified, and differences in their behavioral attitudes towards typical ways and methods of maintaining good physical shape and good health were analyzed. The most common ways of maintaining physical activity and physical education and health activities among young people were identified. The need for more consistent adherence to the rules of self-preservation behavior, which underlie people's decisions to regularly engage in physical education and sports, follow the rules and norms of health preservation, and adhere to the principles of a healthy lifestyle, is substantiated.

health, health preservation, physical education, physical education and health activities, sports, self-preservation behavior, youth