PhD, Associate Professor V.E. Tsibulnikova
Moscow State Pedagogical University, Moscow

The study analyzes the issues of the modern teacher’s motor activity (MA) regulation to address the risks of the job-specific physical inactivity that is commonly acknowledged among the key health risk factors; lists the teacher’ physical activity regulation factors; outlines the job responsibilities and specifics; and offers representative survey data arrays with the teachers’ own ratings of different factors of influence on their motor activity. Sampled for the study were the 21-65 year-old female teachers (n=480) from 23 Russian regions summoned to an advanced training course. The questionnaire survey made it possible to rate the factors of influence on the teachers’ motor activity. The study data and analyses give the grounds to conclude that the individual need for motor activity is largely genetically predetermined, albeit actual motor activity is limited and dictated by the social, environmental and service related factors i.e. it is the society, living environment and the professional service that effectively shape up the individual motor activity. The teacher’s motor activity regulating initiatives, therefore, shall take into account the above three arrays of the individual biological, socio-environmental and service factors. The individual ratings of the above factors by the degrees of their influence on the teachers’ motor activity were found dominated by the individual genetic predisposition to one or another MA; individual health agenda and physical education level; values and priorities in the health-centered motor activity and culture; and the individual motivations for motor activity.

Keywords: motor activity (MA), MA norms, individual best MA.

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