Wellness

Physical fitness (Corbin, 2008) is a person’s ability to function effectively using physical fitness and motor skills. The five components of physical fitness include body composition, cardiovascular fitness, flexibility, muscular endurance, and strength. Physical fitness is generally considered to be “the ability to perform daily tasks without fatigue”. The self is divided into the inner and the outer self; focus of the inner self is to ensure the functioning of every organ with proper nutrition and self-care. The focus of outer self is on pursuit of endurance, flexibility, and strength. Body composition: The proportion of muscle, fat, bone, and other tissues that constitute the body is an indication of fitness of a person with lower fatness. A fit person has a relatively lower percentage of body fat. This provides agility to perform different tasks.

One of the primary roles of youth as students is to effectively engage in learning and perform well in their studies. (Robinson, 2017), (Cowan, 2014). Attention and memory are two factors that enable learning (Tokuhama-Espinosa, Tracey, 2010). Effective learning is realized when the brain can pay attention while listening or reading and subsequently remember what it has been exposed to. Memory can be sensory, short-term, working, long-term. Attention, which lasts from several seconds to at most a few minutes, is what transfers information from sensory memory into short-term memory. Working memory is a dynamic view of the short-term memory and used in the execution of cognitive tasks. The memory lasting anywhere from an hour to lifetime is called long-term memory. Executive functioning (Steve Graham, 2007) involves the conscious, purposeful, and thoughtful activation, orchestration, monitoring, evaluation, and adaptation of strategic resources, knowledge, skills, and motivational states to achieve a desired goal.

Social wellness (Purkey 1988) is a person’s ability to interact with others to establish meaningful relationships that enhance the quality of life of self and others. Social dimension of wellness (Kitko, 2016) is at its prime when the individual contributes to the human and physical environment and when he or she is communicating in harmony with others. Respect for all individuals and their opinions and beliefs falls into this category, as does maintaining intimacy with others. Six dimensions of psychological wellbeing (Mehrotra, 2013) include Self-acceptance, Purpose in life, Personal growth, Environmental mastery, Positive relations with others, and Autonomy. Self-control factor encompasses the aspects of emotion regulation, stress management, and impulsiveness. It refers to the capacity to manage one's impulses and emotions as well as external pressure and stress.