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strategies to cope with stress, how long, how intense, how often and what type
of physical activity affects health, etc., and then they need to put all these ac-
tivities, techniques and strategies into practise to be able to integrate them in-
to their own habits. In this work, we investigated the extent to which students
already put into practise their knowledge about the importance of a healthy
lifestyle for their health. We analysed students‘ commuting behaviour, weight
control, dietary behaviour, sleep times, avoidance of certain habits, timing,
frequency and intensity of physical activity, as well as their opinion on their
knowledge and actual implementation of some aspects of a healthy lifestyle.
The aim of the study was to analyse selected factors affecting students‘ health
and to causally relate them to the need for possible changes and additions to
the teaching process at the faculty.
Four research questions were posed: (1) How do students incorporate
physical activity into their daily commuting routines? (2) What are the lev-
els of physical (in)activity among students, and how do they manage stress and 59
pain? (3) What are the eating habits of students during their studies, how often
do they take medication, and how do they control their body weight? (4) How
is the knowledge about certain aspects of a healthy lifestyle related to its imple-
mentation in practice?

Methods some aspects of the lifestyle of future educators

A Sample of Participants
The statistical population consisted of all full-time and part-time third-year
students of early childhood education at the University of Ljubljana, the Uni-
versity of Maribor and the University of Primorska. The number of students
enrolled in the academic year 2023/24 was determined for each faculty through
the Higher Education Information System (VIS), i.e. a total of 344 students en-
rolled in the third year of preschool education in the academic year 2023/24. All
344 were invited to participate in the survey, but 154 (44.8%) of the question-
naires were returned in full, representing the realisation of the sample. Of the
154 students who participated in the survey, 81 were full-time students and 73
were part-time students.

A Sample of Variables
The questionnaire used in the survey consisted of 39 closed and semi-open
questions divided into 4 sections. The first three sets were designed and adapted
from Maučec (2017) and Health of Slovenian Students (2012), while the fourth
set was developed by us. The first set included demographic and some person-
al data, namely information on the type and place of study, distance of tempo-
rary and permanent residence from the faculty attended, body mass and height
(answered for all three years of study). The second group included questions on
physical (in)activity, namely the number of hours they spend on average per