doi no.: 05-2016-44975451,DOI Link :: http://doi-ds.org/doilink/06.2018-93595541/

Aradhna Saxena¹

Affiliations

¹ Lecturer, Department of Physical Education, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi Vedic Vishwavidyalaya, Jabalpur (M.P.)

ABSTRACT

The purpose of  the present investigation was to  analyse and compare the exercise outcome belief among sports women of different levels of sports participation and fitness group, For this purpose, four hundred twenty four (N=424) sports women of Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh, 106 subjects in each group of school, university, national and fitness group were selected from amongst the players representing their respective teams in various schools, universities and national championship of different sports and games. The attitude, belief and behavioural intention questionnaire developed by Ajzen and Fishbein (1980) was used to collect the data from the selected sample. To assess the selected variables, mean, standard deviations  F-ratio were computed. In case of significant ANOVA, Least significant difference (LSD) test of post-hoc comparisons was applied to assess the significance of difference between ordered paired means. The results of study concluded that  the sports women of different levels of sports achievement and fitness group differ significantly on ‘improve your overall health’ ; ‘take a lot of time’; ‘helps you feel good about yourself’ ; ‘makes you tired and fatigued’; and ‘leads to muscle soreness’  subscales of Exercise outcome belief only. Sports women of different levels of sports achievement and fitness group did not differ  in rest of  the subscales of Exercise outcome belief.

Keywords: Participation levels, fitness group, exercise, belief,  sports women.

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