Examinando por Autor "Amado Alonso, Diana"

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Danza y expresión corporal como materia científica en el Grado de Ciencias de la Actividad Física y del Deporte
(Retos: nuevas tendencias en educación física, deporte y recreación, 2022-06-21) Amado Alonso, Diana
La Danza y Expresión Corporal es una disciplina científica que ha evolucionado en los últimos años desde el estudio del movimiento per se hacia el análisis del cuerpo y de la danza en todas sus dimensiones. De esta forma, se ha configurado un cuerpo de conocimientos con gran base empírica, del cual se nutren áreas como la Medicina, Psicología, Pedagogía, y resto de ciencias relacionadas con la actividad física y el deporte. Para entender esta evolución, es fundamental hacer una diferenciación entre el concepto de Danza y el concepto de Expresión Corporal, hacer un recorrido por su objeto de estudio y por su status científico, incidiendo en las tres dimensiones principales donde se orientan sus aportes: la dimensión artística, la dimensión pedagógica y la dimensión psicoterapéutica. Por tanto, dada la importancia de esta materia para aumentar el cuerpo de conocimientos dentro de las Ciencias de la Actividad Física y del Deporte, es necesario profundizar en sus fundamentos epistemológicos para orientar futuros estudios.
Development and validation of the Spanish version of the PADEX checklist to promote adherence to physical exercise in people with long-term health conditions and older adults.
(Disability and Rehabilitation, 2024-03-03) Lavín Pérez, Ana Myriam; Del Coso Garrigos, Juan; Luque Casado, Antonio; Amado Alonso, Diana; Peñacoba Puente, Cecilia; Del Villar Álvarez, Fernando; Collado Mateo, Daniel
Purpose: To develop and assess the validity of a simple and potentially useful tool with measures to enhance adherence to exercise programs to be used by researchers and exercise professionals when designing exercise interventions in people with long-term health conditions and older adults. Materials and methods: Based on a previous umbrella review, a checklist with key aspects for adherence to physical exercise named Promoting Adherence to Physical Exercise (PADEX) was created in Spanish. Subsequently, an evaluation of the comprehensibility, relevance, and applicability using a quantitative [0–10 points] and qualitative approach was performed by a panel of 31 independent experts. Furthermore, 20 breast cancer women who had been exercise users for at least 4 months evaluated the relevance of each item. Results: Mean and median scores were higher than 8 for all items in comprehensibility, relevance, and applicability. The final version of PADEX includes 23 items about the exercise program to be answered by the exercise professional who designs it or conducts it. Conclusions: The PADEX scale showed adequate face, content and construct validity. This checklist is a potentially useful tool for enhancing adherence to exercise programs in people with long-term health conditions and older adults.
Emotional intelligence and the practice of organized physical-sport activity in children.
(Sustainability, 2019-03-18) Amado Alonso, Diana; León del Barco, Benito; Mendo Lázaro, Santiago; Sánchez Miguel, Pedro Antonio; Iglesias Gallego, Damián
Taking into account Bar-On’s postulations about social-emotional intelligence, the aim of the current work is to find out the differences in the five dimensions of this intelligence between children that practice organized sport and those children that do not practice it at the elementary school level. Method: A randomly selected sample of 940 children from elementary schools, ranging in age from 6 to 12 years old, attending different schools from the Autonomous Community of Extremadura (Spain), was used. Results: The results showed that children who practiced organized sport had better abilities at the intrapersonal and interpersonal level, better adaptability and mood states, and greater emotional intelligence than those who did not. The findings regarding gender and age indicated greater values in girls of emotional intelligence, highlighting the interpersonal dimension, as well as mood state scores, whereas younger children showed greater intrapersonal intelligence and less stress management. Moreover, children who practiced for three or more hours per day had a greater ability to cope with stress than those children who practiced for fewer hours a day. Conclusions: To conclude, it is important to promote federative sport practice in elementary education in order to ensure that children learn to better regulate and manage their emotions.
Examining Body Satisfaction and Emotional–Social Intelligence Among School Children: Educational Implications
(International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2020-03-23) Amado Alonso, Diana; León del Barco, Benito; Mendo Lázaro, Santiago; Iglesias Gallego, Damián
In childhood, the perception of body image is in the construction phase and emerges linked to the aesthetic ideals of society, which is well di erentiated according to gender. In this way, according to people’s interpretations of the environment and how to manage it emotionally, greater or lesser body satisfaction may be generated, which could have irreversible consequences for children. Therefore, our interest lies in how body image satisfaction and gender can act as modulating variables of emotional intelligence in childhood, analyzing differences in the intrapersonal, interpersonal, stress management, adaptability, and mood dimensions of emotional intelligence, according to the degree of body image satisfaction and the child’s gender. A total of 944 Primary Education students selected by multistage cluster sampling, 548 boys and 396 girls aged between 9 and 12 years from different schools in Extremadura (Spain), participated in the research. The study design was descriptive, and questionnaires to measure emotional intelligence, self-perception, and body image satisfaction were used. An analysis of descriptive statistics, a Chi-square test to measure the variance/invariance of the participants’ distribution according to their satisfaction with body image and gender, and a MANOVA to determine the possible e ects of satisfaction with body image as well as of gender on emotional intelligence were conducted. Regardless of gender, children who were satisfied with their body image showed higher interpersonal intelligence, greater adaptability, and better mood. With respect to gender, girls showed higher stress management than boys. Throughout Compulsory Education, it is necessary to promote campaigns imparted by specialists to prevent body image dissatisfaction, so that the benefits can reach the entire educational community (students, teachers, and parents). In this work, several possibilities are described to meet the demands of contemporary society.
Implementing a teacher-focused intervention in physical education to increase pupils’ motivation towards dance at school
(Sustainability, 2020-06-03) Amado Alonso, Diana; Molero Navajas, Pablo; Del Villar Álvarez, Fernando; Tapia Serrano, Miguel Ángel; Sánchez Miguel, Pedro Antonio
A teacher-focused intervention that supports the needs for autonomy, competence and relatedness was designed and implemented, to help experienced teachers develop a motivational style during dance teaching sessions at school. Four schools in Mexico, with 12 physical education teachers and 921 pupils, participated in the research. A program was developed at the beginning with the teachers in the experimental group to support the psychological needs of autonomy, competence and relatedness. Both groups were assessed at the beginning and at the end of the program and the results showed that participants from the experimental group had an increase in their perception of autonomy, relatedness and self-determination levels towards dance teaching sessions at school compared with participants from the control group. In conclusion, teachers’ training is important to increase pupils’ motivation towards dance. Schools should focus on encouraging teachers’ “training in motivational strategies to create pupils’” adaptive behaviors.
Key Factors Associated with Adherence to Physical Exercise in Patients with Chronic Diseases and Older Adults: An Umbrella Review
(International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2021-02-19) Collado Mateo, Daniel; Lavín Pérez, Ana Myriam; Peñacoba Puenta, Cecilia; Del Coso Garrigos, Juan; Leyton Román, Marta; Luque Casado, Antonio; Gasque Celma, Pablo Ignacio; Fernández Del Olmo, Miguel Ángel; Amado Alonso, Diana
Physical inactivity is a major concern and poor adherence to exercise programs is often reported. The aim of this paper was to systematically review published reviews on the study of adherence to physical exercise in chronic patients and older adults and to identify those adherencerelated key factors more frequently suggested by reviews for that population. The Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) guidelines were followed. Results were classified considering the target population and participants’ characteristics to identify the most repeated factors obtained for each condition. Fifty-five articles were finally included. Fourteen key factors were identified as relevant to increase adherence to physical exercise by at least ten reviews: (a) characteristics of the exercise program, (b) involvement of professionals from different disciplines, (c) supervision, (d) technology, (e) initial exploration of participant’s characteristics, barriers, and facilitators, (f) participants education, adequate expectations and knowledge about risks and benefits, (g) enjoyment and absence of unpleasant experiences, (h) integration in daily living, (i) social support and relatedness, (j) communication and feedback, (k) available progress information and monitoring, (l) self-efficacy and competence, (m) participant’s active role and (n) goal setting. Therefore, adherence to physical exercise is affected by several variables that can be controlled and modified by researchers and professionals.