The Impact of Motor Education when Uttering Personal Demands (the Od Factor)

Problem StatementA subject apparently “marginal of pedagogical psychology” (Horst H.S.p.199), but also of motor education, the impact of motor education on the development of self and the utterance of claims (the Od factor abbreviated) was approached from our desire of bringing new indicators regarding a widely debated phenomenon – self-security.Purpose of StudyThis research started from the hypothesis according to which students who have a maximum frequency – 28 modules – at Physical Education lessons, and are active participants at sport games have no issues with their security. Moreover, they have the ability of uttering claims and fight for their materialisation in time, while absent students are reserved with their claims and desires, considering the others as aggressive and offensive, when they themselves disappoint by reacting aggressively. The group of subjects was made from 86 students (boys and girls), enrolled in the same institution and having similar interests.Research MethodsThe bibliographic study methods; the observation method; the enquiry method (questionnaire, discussion etc.); the pedagogical experiment method; the statistical-mathematical method; the observation method; the graphical method. Findings: Through this study, we aim to emphasise that Physical Education classes must be part of the school and university syllabus, representing a national priority, a working method and an important instrument for defining one's self, uttering claims and increasing one's self-security.ConclusionsBy participating frequently at motor activities in the university syllabus, students gain the endurance of not becoming slaves of their first impulse, learn to utter their own claims, and to fight in order to gain them. In the absence of motor education, emotional modifications interfere in the process of self development, self-security and uttering one's claims, with negative repercussions in the future for the evolution of values.