Factors related to exercise behavior of students in Rajamangala University of Technology

Abstract

The study Factors Associated with Exercise Behaviors of Students Rajamangala University of Technology Phra nakhon. Theobjectives of this survey research were to study exercises behaviors of students and the relationships between exercise behaviors of students Rajamangala University of Technology Phra Nakhon, having attitudes towards exercises, perceived benefit exercises, perceived the barrier exercises, having emotional. Four hundred students and were selected by stratified random sampling. A self-administered questionnaire was used to gather data. The data were analyzed for percentage, arithmetic mean, standard deviation, -test, person product moment correlation coefficient. The results of the study were the followings : sex, faculty, educational level, had statistically significant relationship with the exercise behavior of the students significantly at .05 level, and age, body mass index, monthly income, students living had no statistically significant relationship with the exercise behavior, and knowledge and attitudes had no statistically significant relationship with the exercise behavior, and perceived benefit exercise, perceived barrier exercises and emotional were had statistically significant relationship with the exercise behavior of the students significantly at .01 level. There have comments from the research are ; Students Rajamangala University of Technology Phra Nakhon. Should support and encourage students to have exercise by arrange exercise activities in university or arrange activities and educate students by set up exhibition board about exercise Knowledge, communicate about exercise Knowledge via internet of university; should arouse and them by support students who do exercise often, and should convince students who don’t have participation to join exercises activities and engage the benefit of exercise to them.