Structural relationships among Student’s Participation Motivation, Class Flow and Class Satisfaction in General Physical Education Class in a University

2018 ◽  
Vol 27 (6) ◽  
pp. 749-762
Author(s):  
Hak-Kwon Kim ◽  
Min-Jun Kim ◽  
Sang-Young Yoon
Author(s):  
Jorge Bezerra ◽  
Adair Da Silva Lopes ◽  
Giovâni Firpo Del Duca ◽  
Valter Cordeiro Barbosa Filho ◽  
Mauro Virgilio Gomes de Barros

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5007/1980-0037.2016v18n1p114 Leisure-time physical activity (LTPA) has important implications in promoting physical activity among young people. The present study aimed to analyze variations occurred in the 2006-2011 period in LTPA and associated factors among high school boys and girls in the state of Pernambuco, Northeastern Brazil. A cross-sectional schoolbased and statewide survey was conducted in 2006 (n = 4,207) and 2011 (n = 6,264), and samples of adolescents (14-19 years) were compared. Data were collected through a questionnaire. The practice of LTPA was obtained by the question “Do you perform regularly, some kind of physical activity in your free time?” Poisson regression was used (confidence interval (CI) 95%) in crude and adjusted analyses stratified by gender. From 2006 to 2011, there was stability in the proportion of adolescents practicing LTPA both among boys (77.5% versus 78.9%) and girls (51.2%, versus 54.0%). The weekly frequency of physical education classes was directly associated with LTPA both in girls and boys, regardless of the survey year. Age, marital status, grade and computer use were significantly associated with LTPA, but there were distinctions between genders and surveys. In conclusion, there was a temporal variation between 2006 and 2011, but the reduction or increment in LTPA practice varied according to stratification of subgroups of adolescents. In general, physical education class was a factor that remained associated with LTPA in the investigated period.


To investigate the correlation in motivation of participation, sports personality, and development of sociality in the university students who went through general physical education, and to provide the basic data to enhance the general physical education, qualitatively. Population was set with the university students who went through the general physical education, and 340 copies of the final data were analyzed with SPSS 21.0 statistical program. Frequency analysis, correlation analysis, and multiple regression analysis were performed with the following conclusions. Motivation of participation in the university students who went through the general physical education showed the positive relationship with pleasure and technical development in sincerity of sports personality. In addition, motivation of participation showed positive relationship with pleasure, technical development, and health/physical strength in sociability of sociality development. Also, autonomy showed positive relationship with pleasure, technical development, sociality, and health/physical fitness, and activity showed the positive relationship with pleasure, sociality, and health/physical strength..


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