DIGITAL SELF-REGULATION AND PSYCHOPHYSICAL WELL-BEING IN PHYSICAL CULTURE EDUCATION: AN IMRAD BASED PEDAGOGICAL ANALYSIS

Abstract

The article examines how digital self-regulation can be integrated into physical culture education to strengthen students' psychophysical well-being, movement motivation, and responsible attitudes toward health in the conditions of a rapidly digitalizing educational environment. The relevance of the study is determined by a visible contradiction: university students live in a media-saturated space that expands access to fitness applications, wearable devices, online training programs and self-monitoring tools, yet the same digital space also intensifies sedentary behaviour, fragmented attention, comparison anxiety and unstable health habits. The purpose of the article is to develop a scientifically grounded pedagogical interpretation of digital self-regulation in physical culture education and to identify the methodological conditions under which digital tools support, rather than replace, conscious motor activity. Methodologically, the article is based on an integrative theoretical analysis of contemporary research on physical activity, sedentary behaviour, mental health, self-determination theory, behaviour-change technologies and university physical education. The analysis shows that the educational value of digital fitness tools does not lie in mechanical counting of steps or calories, but in their ability to support goal setting, feedback literacy, reflective self-assessment, autonomy, competence and social relatedness. The proposed model includes four interdependent blocks: diagnostic orientation, motivational-personal support, activity-programming, and reflective-evaluative correction. The practical significance of the study is that it offers a pedagogical framework for physical culture teachers who aim to use digital resources without reducing the lesson to technological control. The article concludes that digital self-regulation becomes effective only when it is ethically organized, psychologically safe, culturally adapted and subordinated to the broader aim of forming a stable physical culture of the individual.