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JOURNAL
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SPORTS SCIENCE &
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PERCEIVED BARRIERS BY UNIVERSITY STUDENTS IN THE PRACTICE OF PHYSICAL ACTIVITIES |
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Manuel Gómez-López  ,
Antonio Granero Gallegos and Antonio Baena Extremera |
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Faculty of Sports Science, University of Murcia, Murcia, Spain |
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© Journal of Sports Science and Medicine (2010) 9, 374 - 381 |
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| ABSTRACT | |||
| The main goal of this research is to study in detail the main
characteristics of university students in order to find out the reasons
why they have adopted an inactive lifestyle. In order to do so, a questionnaire
on the analysis of sports habits and lifestyle was given to 323 students.
They were taken from a representative sample of 1834 students. These 323
students had pointed out at the moment of the fieldwork, not having practiced
any sport in their spare time. Our findings point out that there are diverse
reasons for this. On one hand, reasons referred to as external barriers
such as lack of time, on the other hand, internal barriers such as not liking
the physical activity, not seeing its practicality or usefulness, feeling
lazy or with apathy, or thinking that they are not competent in this type
of activities. Other reasons such as the lack of social support are grouped
within the external barriers. Finally, it is important to stress that there
are also differences based on gender with respect to motivation.
Key words: University students, barriers, physical and sport practice. |
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