Banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO: VICTOR FERREIRA DO NASCIMENTO

Uma banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO de MESTRADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.
STUDENT : VICTOR FERREIRA DO NASCIMENTO
DATE: 18/12/2025
TIME: 14:00
LOCAL: DEF
TITLE:

Dialogues between Leisure and Mental Health: A Look at Graduate Students in Physical Education at UFRN

KEY WORDS:

Leisure activities; Mental health; Graduate studies; University.

PAGES: 82
BIG AREA: Ciências da Saúde
AREA: Educação Física
SUMMARY:

The mental health of graduate students, marked by excessive productivity, has become an emerging topic in academic literature. In this context, understanding the relationship between graduate students and leisure activities became the object of this study, which aims to analyze the leisure activities of students in the stricto sensu Graduate Program in Physical Education (PPGEF) and their relationship with mental health care. This research is characterized as an exploratory field study with a qualitative approach. Seventeen master’s and doctoral students with active enrollment in the Stricto Sensu Graduate Program in Physical Education at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (PPGEF/UFRN) participated in this study. Semi-structured interviews were used as the data collection strategy. To analyze the data, the software Interface de R pour les Analyses Multidimensionnelles de Textes et de Questionnaires (IRaMuTeQ), version 0.7 Alpha 2, and R interface 4.1.3 were used. Subsequently, content analysis was performed based on Bardin’s categorical analysis technique, which aims to break down the text into analytical categories. The results show that although students feel generally well in terms of mental health (MH), excessive demands cause imbalance. They also attribute to leisure a moment of self-knowledge and resistance to productivity pressures, with weight training and crossfit being the main leisure activities. Regarding barriers to accessing leisure, time and money are the most significant. As for facilitators, the results indicate that living near leisure spaces contributes to access. As partial considerations, it is understood that leisure activities emerge as significant elements in students’ routines, who, although affected by demands and time constraints, recognize that practicing leisure activities can contribute to mental health care and, as an act of resistance, seek to incorporate leisure into their daily lives.

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
Presidente - 1872928 - PRISCILLA PINTO COSTA DA SILVA
Interna - 1551552 - MARIA ISABEL BRANDAO DE SOUZA MENDES
Interna - 1672476 - ROSIE MARIE NASCIMENTO DE MEDEIROS
Externo à Instituição - BRUNO MEDEIROS ROLDÃO DE ARAÚJO - UFCG
Externa à Instituição - EMÍLIA AMÉLIA PINTO COSTA RODRIGUES - UFBA