Impact of health-enhancing recreational activity program on the resilience in university students during wartime

Resilience is a fundamental personal trait that determines the ability of university students to effectively adapt to the challenges of the educational process, social environment, and stressful conditions, including wartime situation. The objective of the work was to assess the impact of physical activity on the level of resilience in university students under war conditions and to substantiate effective approaches to the development of psychological resilience using recreational physical activity. Methods: theoretical analysis of professional scientific and methodological literature and documentary materials, Internet resources; methods of assessing physical activity, psychodiagnostic methods, and methods of mathematical statistics. The study involved 40 university students with an average age of 18.4 ± 0.8 years. Results. The developed program of health-enhancing recreational physical activity (duration: 12 weeks, frequency: 80 minutes classes 3 days per week) included cardio and strength exercises, breathing techniques, relaxation exercises, and psychological practices. The effectiveness of the developed program of health-enhancing recreational physical activity was assessed within the framework of a transformation pedagogical experiment. Changes in the level of physical activity were established in female students. Most participants demonstrated an increase in the overall level of physical activity, in particular, the amount of time spent on physical activity of medium and high intensity increased. Stress tolerance indicators improved: the number of participants with medium and high levels of resilience increased, and the number of respondents with low levels significantly decreased. Conclusions. The program improves students' resilience, contributing to the reduction of physical exhaustion, anxiety, depression, strengthens adaptive mechanisms and emotional stability.