Investigation of Physical Activity and Barriers Of High School Students

Authors : Murat Bekleyiş Apaydın, Emin Süel, Ali Rıza Atıcı

Pages : 229-236

Doi:10.55238/seder.1587383

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Publication Date : 2024-12-30

Article Type : Research Paper

Abstract :Aim: Physical activity is one of the most important factors for humans. Children and youth people of physical exercise have effect healthy behaviours and encourages students to participate in physical exercise. Method: This study used the Exercise Benefits/Barriers Scale (EBBS) for High School students. It was used for the validity and reliability study of the EBBS for use in a Turkish text. İn the survey there are 7 sub-dimensions and 29 questions in scala but we used 4 sub-dimensions and 23 questions to regulate a study according to the level of high school students. This practice sample consists of female 228 males 270 sum of participants 498 volunteers. The analysis of data was used to license the SPSS 22 program and to determine the sample size in the study used to G* Power (3.1.9.4.Version). Because of data did didn’t show normal distribution It was used in pairwise comparisons Man-Whitney U test; more than two variable comparisons were used Kruskall Wallis test. Findings: According to the findings, the comparison of gender to variable it was found to have a significant difference (p<0,05) in sub-dimension social interaction, variable participation of exercise (Yes or No) it was found to mean full difference (p<0,05) all sub-dimension (Fun, Barriers, Life enhancement, Social İnteraction). According to the variable sports branches were found to have crucial different sub-dimensions of fun, life enhancement, and social interaction. Conclusion: It was concluded that gender was an important factor in social communication and that exercise had a positive effect on parameters such as social communication in high school students.
Keywords : fiziksel aktivite, engel, yarar, lise