PHYSICAL FITNESS AND MENTAL HEALTH URBAN CITY AND RURAL Ahmad Chaeroni, Nurlan Kusmaedi, Amung Mamun, Dian Budiana
Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia
Abstract
Today young generation experiences anxiety in facing life^s problems, depression or stress, and everything related to physical fitness. Good physical activity will provide good benefits for the body, especially to overcome fitness and mental problems. ntervention programs provide urban and rural adolescents whose aim is to find out the different levels of physical fitness and mental health in different areas of residence. This type of research is classified into experimental research by providing school and family-based intervention programs for adolescents who are the subject of research for 30 days, with a sample of 160 adolescents of West Sumatran provention divided into two regions, namely urban areas with 80 adolescents divided into 40 adolescents. male and 40 female adolescents, then in rural areas which is like 40 male and 40 female adolescents. From the results of the study prove that the physical fitness of rural adolescents is higher than urban adolescents with an average proving result, that is 99.65: 61.35 while the mental health level of urban adolescents is higher than rural adolescents, with an average comparison of 86.93: 74.08.
Keywords: Physical fitness, mental health, urban and rural youth
