Factors associated with physical activity and leisure with the theory of planned behavior in high school students in Tehran

Journal Title: International Research Journal of Applied and Basic Sciences - Year 2013, Vol 6, Issue 8

Abstract

Nowadays, with the development of technology and urban life , completely changing their lifestyle. The lack of participation in physical activity and increased sedentary and inactive lifestyle put all of society at risk. In the health field, such as the theory of theory of planned behavior is used to explain health-related behaviors that four variables attitude, subjective norm, perceived behavioral control and behavioral intention to predict actual behavior provides a stronger will .able to predict behavioral intention and perceived behavioral and leisure physical activity in middle school girls are? Or not. The purpose of this thesis was to develop a questionnaire with the sample number of 425 questionnaires were randomly assigned to the distribution of high school students in After collecting the data, using SPSS software through descriptive statistics and multivariable regression analysis was performed to analyze the data. That show a strong correlation between these variables before ( attitude, subjective norm and perceived behavioral control) and landowner (the tendency of behavior and activity level) and behavioral intention (leisure activity), respectively.

Authors and Affiliations

Mehrnoosh Asadi *| M.A Student of Sport Management, Central Branch of Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran., Mohammadreza Esmaeili| Assistant Professor of Sport Management, Central Branch of Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran., Farshad Tojari| Associate Professor of Sport Management, Central Branch of Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran.

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Mehrnoosh Asadi *, Mohammadreza Esmaeili, Farshad Tojari (2013). Factors associated with physical activity and leisure with the theory of planned behavior in high school students in Tehran. International Research Journal of Applied and Basic Sciences, 6(8), 1112-1116. https://europub.co.uk/articles/-A-6231