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A El Jaziz1, S Lotfi2, A O T Ahami1
1Department of Biology, Equip of Clinical and Cognitive Neuroscience and Nutritional Health, Faculty of Science, Ibn Tofail University, Kénitra, Morocco.
Background:
Many studies results suggest how can we improve the academic performance for our kids. The purposes of this study were to examine how physical activity could affect both academic achievement and fluid intelligence in adolescence.
Study Design:
We measured the three variables (physical, cognitive, academic) and try to find the correlations between them.
Methods:
A total of 167 adolescents (mean age = 16.34 years SD = 1.2) from Morocco are participating in this study. The cardiorespiratory fitness was measured with the20 m endurance shuttle-run test. We also assessed the Resistance capacity with 500m sprint test. The academic achievement was assessed by school grades. The fluid intelligence was assessed by using Raven's Standard Progressive Matrices. We examined the correlation between all variables.
Results:
This study indicates that the academic achievement was positively associated with the Fluid Intelligence and also with the Resistance Capacity and not with Cardiorespiratory Fitness (VO2peak).
Conclusions:
We can conclude that the professionals and researchers in sports and education have to promote physical activity at the school age for a public health purpose.
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