Affective Diagnosis Self-Perceived by the Students in Physical Education Classes

This study is concerned with carrying out a diagnostic evaluation of the effects and intensity that Primary Education students self-perceived in Physical Education lessons, evaluating affective states based on gender and body mass index (BMI). The sample comprises 786 students from the 5th and 6th grades of Primary Education, where, to evaluate affectivity, the version of PANAS validated in Spanish by Sandin (2003) was used. Thus, scores reveal higher for positive than adverse affectlessness. The research results confirm significant differences between boys and girls in the variables that most contribute to the positive affect factor. Regarding the differences based on the BMI of the students in the dimension of positive affects, all the highest mean scores are found in students without obesity/overweight issues. To this extent, negative affection states the highest mean scores in the students with obesity/overweight problems. Hence, there are significant differences according to BMI between students with overweight/obesity problems and students without overweight/obesity problems in positive affects. There are no significant differences though in negative affects. Both boys and girls without obesity/overweight problems show more positive affects than boys and girls with obesity/overweight problems. Regarding negative affects, a differentiated pattern between boys and girls is confirmed.