Assessing the Motivation of First-year Undergraduate Students for Physical Fitness Workout and Contextual Differences at Bahir Dar University

Demissie Gashu Walle
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Motivation can be seen as a major factor in improving physical exercise behavior among people. Evaluating the motivational of university students towards physical fitness workout is important to implement intervention strategies’ to increase their motivationlevel for their personal development and achievement of individual goals.This study aimed to assess university first-year undergraduate students' motivations for engaging in physical fitness workout and how those motivations related to contextual factors. The study used a cross-sectional survey design consisted of 323 sample students at Bahir Dar University. The majority age of the students (n= 216, 66.9%) were 20 years old. The adapted Exercise Self-Regulation Questionnaire (SRQ-E) was used to measure the motivation for physical fitness workout.The results were analyzed using descriptive statistics and t tests. The results show that overall mean of students’ motivation for physical fitness workout was below the average (2.85). The mean scores of most few motivational variables show significant statistical difference across the students religion, and residential status (p<.05).As far as major field was concerned, there was a statistically significant difference between natural and social science students in the two motivational variables: identified regulation and external motivation (p<.05,Cohen's d= -.123 & -.027). To understand the motivation of freshman students for physical fitness workout in universities, future research needs to consider the direct effect of some other contextual variables.
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评估巴哈达尔大学一年级本科生的体育锻炼动机和环境差异
动机是改善人们体育锻炼行为的一个重要因素。本研究旨在评估大学一年级本科生参加体育锻炼的动机,以及这些动机与环境因素的关系。本研究采用横断面调查设计,由巴哈达尔大学的 323 名抽样学生组成。大部分学生(216 人,66.9%)的年龄为 20 岁。采用改编的运动自我调节问卷(SRQ-E)来测量体育锻炼的动机。结果显示,学生体育锻炼动机的总体平均值低于平均值(2.85)。就专业领域而言,自然科学学生和社会科学学生在两个动机变量:认同调节和外部动机上存在显著差异(P<.05,Cohen's d= -.123 & -.027)。为了了解大学新生的体育锻炼动机,未来的研究需要考虑其他一些情境变量的直接影响。
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