اتجاهات طلبة جامعة الملك عبد العزيز بالمملكة العربية السعودية نحو ممارسة النشاط البدني

Abstract EN

This study aimed to identify attitudes of King Abdulaziz student’s towardes physical activity.

The researcher used the descriptive style survey.

Two hundreds and seventy five students participated in the study and they were selected using stratified random style.

The investigator used the questionnaire as a means of data collection.

The questionnaire were divided to four different sections: the impact of physical activity on the health aspect, the impact of physical activity on social aspect, the impact of physical activity on psychic aspect, and the impact of physical activity on scientific aspect.

The total sentences of the questionnaire were 32 sentences and were evenly distributed between the four aspects.

The data analysis revealed that King Abdulaziz University students had a positive attitudes toward physical activity (mean = 3.77).

The health aspects came the first with a mean of 4.29, psychic aspects were second with a mean of 4.11, scientific aspects were third with a mean of 3.4, and social aspects were fourth with a mean of 3.2.

The results of the study indicated that there were no attitude differences with regard to body mass index (BMI) and GPA variables.

The results also showed that there were significant differences in health aspects with regard to sex variable in favor of male’s participants.

The researcher recommended that to develop and strengthen students attitudes at King Abdulaziz University toward physical activity a set of procedures should be implemented such as: lectures, newsletters and educational workshops.