Motives and Level of Physical Activity among School Teachers

Abstract

Participating in physical activity usually started with one or more reason. This reason then turns into goal to achieve. This is how people derive their motivation to doing physical activity. Ryan [1] investigate fifteen potential motivation of exercising including fun and enjoyment; improve cardiovascular fitness and ongoing good health. Woolf [2], the motivations to engage in physical activity were shown by cluster that evaluates six elements. The elements include competence challenge motivation, appearance motivation, and relaxation motivation, satisfaction with fitness, involvement with fitness and involvement with health. These elements than categorize into few cluster that shows the respondent level of motivation. The descriptive analysis was used to determine the frequency and the mean of the data. The study use Exercise Motivation Inventory (EMI-2) and International, Physical Activity Questionnaire (IPAQ) and also Theory of reasoned of action as a based. This research found that, all five motive affect the involvement of the individual in physical activity with the significant of p-value=.000. Besides, the motive that give affect the most towards the individual is social, challenge and fitness. Meanwhile, the motives that preferred by males are fitness and challenge, while for female teacher is appearance and health.

Relationship Between Health Literacy, Physical Activity, Motivation and Barriers of People Aged 30–50 Years

“…A statistically significant relationship (p < .05) was found after investigating the relationship between physical activity and motives that stimulate physical activity in the areas of enjoyment, competence, appearance and fitness. Research shows that physical activity is more intense due to fitness, but there was no statistically significant relationship between appearance and social motives (Kamal, Radzani, & Jannah, 2018). Also, with increasing health literacy, there is a growing consciousness of why it is necessary and useful to engage in physical activity by eliminating all possible barriers which may limit physical activity.…”