Reasons for physical exercise practice in university students according to body mass index
The purpose of this study was to identify possible involvement of body mass index (BMI) in identifying the motives which may induce college students to practice physical exercise. A total of 2380 subjects aged 18 to 35 years-old were included in the study. To identify exercise motives we used the ve...
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| Language: | English |
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Sociedade Brasileira de Atividade Física e Saúde
2013-01-01
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| Series: | Revista Brasileira de Atividade Física e Saúde |
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| Online Access: | https://rbafs.org.br/RBAFS/article/view/1877 |
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| Summary: | The purpose of this study was to identify possible involvement of body mass index (BMI) in identifying the motives which may induce college students to practice physical exercise. A total of 2380 subjects aged 18 to 35 years-old were included in the study. To identify exercise motives we used the version translated into Portuguese of the Exercise Motivations Inventory (EMI-2). The statistical treatment of data was performed by univariate and multivariate analysis of variance, in which the exercise motives were the dependent variables and gender and strata of BMI (normal weight, overweight and obesity). The results indicated significant effect of sex (Wilks’ Lambda=0.737; F (10,2369)=84.736; p |
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| ISSN: | 1413-3482 2317-1634 |