DIFFERENT PHYSICAL ACTIVITY MEN AND WOMEN COMMUNICATION PECULIARITIES Margarita Skvarčienė Lithuanian Academy of Physical Education, Kaunas, Lithuania SUMMARY Scholarly opinions about the differences between men and women are more than academic; opinions about gender differences have personal, professional and political implications. Many scholars lamented that too few theories existed to explain sex differences in communication. Although theory still lags behind descriptive research, researchers have made advances in theoretical explanations of sex and gender differences. This study present different physical activity male and female similarities as well as differences in communication. As we researched, we hypothesized that: physically active men and women have better listening skills, than physically sedentary men and women; physically active men and women have tendency to have greater demand of communication, than non active men and women; physically active men and women have better communication skills, than physically passive men and women. The object of the current study is gender communication peculiarities. The aim of the work is to evaluate different physical activity men and women communication peculiarities. To obtain this aim, we determine these propositions: 1. to evaluate different physical activity men and women listening skills and to compare them by gender aspect; 2. to evaluate different physical activity men and women demand of communication, and... [to full text]