Comparison and correlation between motivation of participation in sports activities and Levels of physical activity in active and inactive employees of Karun Oil and Gas Company operating

Background: The aim of the present study is comparison and correlation between motivation of participation in sports activities and levels of physical activity in active and inactive employees of karun oil and gas company operating. Material and Methods: This research is descriptive correlation study. The researchpopulation was all of the karun oil and gas company operating in 91 years.200 subjects based randomly sampling selected and based on the researcher made questionnaire wasdivided into two groups: active and passive. To data collection physical activityquestionnaire and motivation of participate in sporting activities was used. Aftercompleting the questionnaires, K-S test for normality of data and also to check theequality of variances leven test was used. Data using descriptive statistics (mean and standard deviation) and inferential statistics (linear regression analysis, multivariateanalysis (MANOVA)) using spss software (version 16) at a significance level of 05/0> p were analyzed. Results and Discussions: The results showed that in subscales of motivation to participate in sports activities in both active and passive group only in social liferelationships subscales, there is no significant difference. As well as the results of linear regression analysis showed that of the six components of intrinsic motivation toparticipate in physical activity, relationship of social interaction, vivacity and succulence, mental health, life relationships and other incentives is significant and with criterion variables have linear relationship and able to predict the amount of physical activity

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Participation motivation ، physical activity ، active and inactive employees