مركز السببية المدرك لدى طلبة المرحلة الإعدادية الذين يمارسون التمارين الرياضية في القاعات الرياضية

Abstract EN

The research aims to know the “Perceived Locus of Causality among middle school students who exercise in gymnasiums” by answering the following hypotheses: First: Identifying perceived locus of causality among secondary school students who work out exercises in gyms during free time.

Second: Identifying locus of causality (internal-external) among secondary school students who work out exercises in gyms during free time.

Research limits: The current research is determined by studying the Perceived Locus of Causality among middle school students who exercise in gymnasiums (Al-Jam) in their spare time and from both sexes (males - females) in the city of Baghdad (Al-Karkh - AlRusafa).

Research procedures: Use the descriptive approach to verify the research hypotheses, as follows: 1- The research sample: The research sample consisted of (250) male and female students of the fourth, fifth and sixth stages, students who exercised in gymnasiums (Al-Jam) in their spare time within the city of Baghdad (Karkh - Rusafa) who were chosen in a multistage random manner.

2- The research tool: The researcher has adopted and translated the Perceived Locus of Causality Scale into Arabic prepared by (Goudas et al, 1994), and the scale consists of five sub-scales in which an independent score is given to each of the five sub-scale domains, and the psychometric properties (Honesty and reliability) for the five sub-scales.

The results are: First: The perception ranges from low to high for the subscales of perceived locus of causality as following : 1- There is a low degree of perceived amotivation for working out exercises among male and female training students with medium about (12.26).

2- There is a low degree of perceived external regulation for working out exercises among male and female students with medium about (14.00).

3- There is a little high degree of perceived introjected regulation for working out exercises among male and female training students about (16.66).

4- There is a high degree of perceived identified regulation for working out exercises among male and female training students about (20.24).

5- There is a high degree of perceived intrinsic motivation for working out exercises among male and female training students about (19.88).

Second:Perceived locus of causality (external-internal) for working out exercises among male and female students distributed as following: 1- The number of male students with internal locus of causality is about (155) students, whereas the number of those with external locus of causality is about (41) students from the whole sample of male students which is (196) training students.

2- The number of female students with internal locus of causality is (45) students, whereas the number of those with external locus of causality is (9) students from the whole female sample which is about (54) training students.