schoolchildren

A group of schoolchildren (N = 107) with different levels of hardiness use strategies to cope with stress in different ways. Group of victims of the destructive orientation characteristic coping strategies, they avoid action, they use play or social role of the victim. For victimization of the group and the group with a medium level of hardiness of the dominant strategy is avoiding. Based on the identified features need to be organized psychological work with all groups of students.

The paper deals with the problem of developing in students of pedagogical universities readiness to improve schoolchildren’s health by means of physical culture. It is emphasized that deterioration in the health of the younger generation is a pressing issue nowadays. As “school risk factors” have strong negative influence on the health of schoolchildren, health preserving activity must become a responsibility of every teacher. The study is aimed at revealing readiness of teachers to use health preserving technologies during their lessons.