Learning Outcome 3: Employ techniques of active reading, critical reading, and informal reading response for inquiry, learning, and thinking.

Journal Entry:

Motivation for physical activity: Differentiating motives for sport and exercise

Participation is an experiment to compare the motivation of college students both male an female to do team sports vs to work out. The purpose of the article is to extend the comparison of sport participation and exercise motivation. By doing this, the article is trying to indicate the need to study physical activity, motivation, and behavior. The study shows a relation between the two instead of a cause and effect. The article provides statistics that show evidence towards less motivation for exercise and more motivation for sports.

The results of this experiment supported the hypothesis, that college students are more prone to participate in a team sport rather than independent exercise. Their findings showed subjects were more likely to report intrinsic motives for playing sports versus exercising. These results were important because it affects a large population consisting of college students. The findings indicate that more studies on physical activity and behavior must be done in order for researchers to develop better programs.

Q1: “Analyses also revealed significant gender…” (page 91)

Why did the study use these five affects?

Q2: “Respondents were more motivated to…” (page 92)

Why do they think this?

Q3: We suggest the measurement of…” (page 93)

Why was the sample so highly differentiated?

I1: “Follow-up analysis of stress management…” (page 92)

I2: “Women’s greater concern for weight..” (page 93)

I3: “One of the underlying foundations…” (page 93)

C1: “This is the highest rated motives for…” (page 92)

I feel as though these motives relate to me on a personal level.

C2: “Again, this finding may well…” (page 93)

I seek to workout and to play sports.

C3: “Suggest that the motives associated…” (page 93)

I feel as though having a sport allows more motivation to get exercise more than lifting.