Health clubs members’ stress and it’ s handling techniques

The subject of the research: health clubs members‘ stress and it‘s handling techniques. Independent variables – health clubs members‘ gender, their fitness experience. Dependent variables – stress and it‘s handling techniques. Goal of the research – analyze stress of sports clubs members and find out it‘s handling techniques. Objectives: 1. Establish and compare health clubs women and men members‘ stress pecularities. 2. Establish and compare health club members‘ stress pecularities depending on their fitness experience. 3. Establish and compare stress relieving techniques which are being used by women and men health clubs members. 4. Establish and compare stress relieving trechniques which are being used by health clubs members with different fitness experience. Hypothesis: let‘s assume that: 1. Health clubs members, who have more fitness experience, feel less stress and use more stress relieving techniques. 2. Women use more stress relieving techniques than men. The research methods that were used in this work are as follows: literature resources, written questtionare, percentage analysis, mathematical statistics. Anonymous questtionare was done after fitness classes in x, y, z health clubs of Kaunas city, on November, 2007. The length of time for filling the questtionares was 20 minutes. Research group was made by probability function. There were 125 participants (66 men and 59 women). Respondents‘ age was 18 – 40 years. Arithmetical mean is 27,6 ± 7,5 years (men years arithmetical mean 24,5 ± 6,6, women – 31,1 ± 6,8 years). Respondents were divide into two categories: fitness level and gender. Mathematical statistics. Statistical research data analysis was done by using SPSS 13.0 statistical data research package. The results of written questtionares are in percent module. In order to establish the reliability of different groups results χ2 was used (chi squared criterion). Conclusions: 5. Health clubs men members‘ stress is more focused on learning and less focused on the body and social environment, as women members‘ stress is more focused on the brains, learning, social environment, body and is less focused on the job. Stress focused on learning is more common for men than women (p < 0,05). 6. Men with more fitness experience have less stress than those who just started sports activities. Socially oriented stress is less (p < 0,05) for those men and women who have longer exercising experience than those men and women who just started exercising. Learning oriented stress is less for men who just started exercising and for women who have been exercising for a long time (p < 0,05). 7. Health clubs women members more often than men (p < 0,05) use these stress relieving techniques: dancing, yoga, massage therapy, aromatherapy, strolling in the park, petting animals, socialising with other family members, gardening, floriculture, book reading, praying and attending church, laugh therapy, changing the perception of stressful situation. 8. Men and women with more sports experiense use fitness, meditation, autogenical, active and passive stretching, aerobic exercises more often than those men and women who just started exercising (p < 0,05)