Medical exempts from physical effort: An alarm signal for health or a low self-esteem?!
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The research undertaken completes other studies performed until present days, both theoretically and practically, regarding
the existence of the medical exempt from physical effort, and aims to be an alarm signal, because the medical exempt is
useful when it is given for real causes and an alarm system which endangers health, when a low self-esteem is hidden. As a
consequence of the study, it is a necessity in educational research for motion, of the manner in which students with medical
exempts for physical effort regard and understand this aspect. In our research, we started from the hypothesis according to
which medical exempts can be a social benchmark, regarding the state of health, but also an indicator that a lot of subjects
use a medical exempt (M.E.) as a reason to hide a low self-esteem, a precarious affective disposition, an unease psyche with
strong personality disorders. The research was undertaken on a group of students involved in the didactic process from the
Petroleum Gas University Ploieşti, in a number of 97 students (68-girls; 29 boys), all of them with medical exempts, randomly
chosen from the two years of study (year I and year II) who have Physical Education lessons in their syllabus and who were
allocated to me in the didactic norm. Bibliographic study method; observation method; investigation method (conversation,
questionnaire entitled – “Me”, the medical exempt and the Physical Education lesson); pedagogical experiment method;
statistical-mathematic method; graphical method were employed as methodology. Medical exempt (M.E.) is just an
instrument – cover, through which people attempt to hide; certain negative and intense emotional experiences; a low selfesteem, a precarious affective disposition; an unease psyche with seirous personality disorders. Concluding all these aspects,
I felt obliged to signal the alarm towards specialists in the field and to launch the proposed subject, considering that it is
timely and it opens new research perspectives. We state that, without a doubt, motric activities stimulate and value
individuals, and for this reason we recommend the presence of Physical Education lessons in the students’ syllabus and as
many discussions with them as possible, regarding the use of medical exempts as a cover or as a necessity imposed by the
state of health.
Keywords: Students,medical exempt, motric activities, self-esteem
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