COMPARATIVE STUDY OF MOTIVATION TO EXERCISE OF STUDENTS BETWEEN THREE FACULTIES IN THAILAND NATIONAL SPORTS UNIVERSITY CHON BURI CAMPUS
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The understanding of motivational exercise has an important role in students' participation in physical exercise. Different genders and difference faculties result in different motivations. With the sample group of 234 students from Thailand National Sports University of Chon Buri Campus, including the Faculties of Education, Faculty of Liberal Art, and Faculty of Sport and Healthy Science, the purpose of this study was to investigate the significant differences in motivation between different faculties and between different genders, and to find out the differences in the motivations of students participating in exercise among the three faculties of Thailand National Sports University. Through questionnaires mathematical statistics was used to analyze whether there were differences between physical motivation and gender and faculties. Finally, the relevant conclusions were obtained through comparative analysis. The study’s conclusions were shown that the mean difference was significant at the 0.05 level. The mean score of 116 males was 4.17 (S.D. = 0.49) and the mean score of 68 females was 4.08 (S.D. = 0.52). From the data analysis the t-test result between males and females was 1.19 with the Sig (0.53)>Sig (0.05). So, no significant difference was found between males and females. Significant differences were found between Faculty of Education and Faculty of Liberal Arts, and between Faculty of Education and Faculty of Sports and Health Science. However, no significant difference was found between Faculty of Liberal Arts and Faculty of Sports and Health Science.
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