The Effect of Physical Fitness and Healthy Behavior toward Concentration, Anxiety and Cortisol Hormone

Abstract

This study aimed to get empirical evidence and facts of how the correlation and contribution between physical fitness, healthy behavior towards concentration, anxiety and salivary cortisol hormone response on the elementary school students. The method is one-shot case study with a population of elementary school students in West Java. The data were taken at random based on geographic characteristics, approximately in ten months. Its taken was physical fitness, healthy behavior, anxiety, salivary cortisol hormone response. The results showed: 1) there was a significant correlation between physical fitness with concentration level at p-0.000, amount of contribution is 24.6%; 2) there was a significant correlation between physical fitness with anxiety at p-0.003, amount of contribution is 4.9%; 3) there was a significant correlation between physical fitness with salivary cortisol hormone response at p-0.015, amount of contribution 3.9%; 4) there was a significant correlation between healthy behavior with a concentration level at p-0.000, amount of contribution is 6.6%; 5) There was a significant correlation between health behavior with anxiety at p-0.000 amount of contribution is 9%; 7) there was no significant correlation between healthy behavior with salivary cortisol hormone response at p-0,244 amount of contribution is 0.3%.