Analysis of Enjoyment Among Children Engaged In Selected Physical Activities
A Comparative Analysis of Enjoyment in Different Physical Activities among Children
by Manoj Sahu*, Biswas Sajal Kumar,
- Published in International Journal of Physical Education & Sports Sciences, E-ISSN: 2231-3745
Volume 1, Issue No. 2, Jul 2011, Pages 0 - 0 (0)
Published by: Ignited Minds Journals
ABSTRACT
The aim of the study was to investigate the enjoyment andengagement in physical activities, of children participating in summer coachingcamp programme of LNUPE, Gwalior. The participants of the study were 131children of swimming (N=47), tennis (N=40), football (N= 44) from greaterGwalior, aged between 13 to18. Physical activity engagement, enjoyment wereassessed by self-report questionnaires. Analysis for variance (ANOVA) revealedthat there is a significant difference between mean enjoyment level of swimming(108.7447 +11.18514) and football (102.75 + 11.16291) whereas there is nodifference between swimming and tennis (107.7 + 9.75127.) and also betweentennis and football at 0.05 level of significance. Thus it may be concludedthat enjoyment in physical activity is more in swimming and least in football.
KEYWORD
analysis, enjoyment, children, physical activities, summer coaching camp, LNUPE Gwalior, swimming, tennis, football, variance
INTRODUCTION
Enjoyment is act or state of enjoying, use or possession of something beneficial or pleasurable, something that gives pleasure. Physical activity is defined as any bodily movement produced by skeletal muscles that require energy expenditure. Physical activity is any activity that causes your body to work harder than normal. It describes activities that are beyond your daily routine of sitting, standing, and walking up stairs. Everyone can benefit Dudad; Bernard Gutina; Paule Barbeaua) had sought the study to determine the reliability and validity of the physical activity enjoyment scale(paces) in elementary school children Enjoyment has been implicated as a determinant of physical activity among youth (Mot RW, Dishman RK, Saunders R, Dowda M, Felton G, Pate RR). Enjoyment of physical activity may have significant positive outcomes by facilitating continued involvement in activity (Wankel, Leonard M). The purpose of the study is to see, whether the children engaged in different sports activity enjoy equally or not as compare to different sports activities. The subordinate purpose of the study was to find out, of three sports (tennis, football, swimming which one is more enjoyable to the children.
METHOD
The subjects for the study were 131 children engaged in swimming (N=47), tennis (N=40), footbal(N= 44) from greater Gwalior. These students were taught by LNUPE student teachers for summer coaching camp at LNUPE. For the purpose of the collection of the data the Physical Activity Enjoyment Scale (PACES, an 18-item, self-administered scale developed by Kendzierski and DeCarlo),was use to measure enjoyment toward activities. Respondents were asked to rate their current feelings about physical activity using a seven-point semantic differential approach. As done in the original development of the scale, the scale was analyzed as a Likert scale. A total scale score was computed by summing responses to all items after recoding some items so that a high score indicated high enjoyment, whereas a low score indicated little enjoyment. The data were collected during regularly allotted coaching classes to student teachers. The students responded to the instruments under the supervision of their Student teacher. The researchers coordinated the testing sessions and recruited assistance from the Student teachers as required. Participation in all areas of the data collection was voluntary. Students were informed that all data were confidential and would only be used by the researcher for the purposes of this study.
RESULTS
The data collected were analyzed statistically and the outcome generated has been given bellow.
enjoyment in physical activities
Table 1 showed that the Mean and standard deviation of all the three groups swimming, tennis, football. All the children participating actively and regularly still the greater enjoyment level was of children engaged in swimming {mean=108.7447, standard deviation=11.18514 then of children engaged in tennis {mean=107.7, standard deviation=9.75127} but the enjoyment level of children engaged in football {mean=102.75, standard deviation=11.16291}
Fig 1: enjoyment Level Between different physical activity
Analysis for variance (ANOVA) for the means of children engaged in different physical activities has been shown in Table 2
Table 2: ANOVA for the means of swimming, tennis and football enjoyment in Physical Activity
enjoyment were calculated. It was seen that Tab F.05 (2,128) = 3.07 is less than the Cal value of F = 3.939. It is conclude that the evidence is sufficient to indicate a difference in enjoyment in physical activities among children. To further analyze as to which group is enjoying more in physical activities pair wise mean comparison analysis will be done by using scheffe’s test in the table 3.
Table 3: Multiple Comparisons
In the table 3 it is evident that there is a significant difference between mean enjoyment level of children engaged in swimming and football. Whereas there is no difference between football. Thus it may be concluded that enjoyment in physical activity is more in children involve in swimming and least in children involve in football.
DISCUSSION
The purpose of the study was to investigate the enjoyment level of children engaged in selected physical activities i.e. swimming, tennis and football. The study reveals that there is a relation between enjoyments in physical activity with children engaged in swimming classes. The result also illustrated that the children engaged in swimming gets maximum enjoyment than the children engaged in tennis and football. The enjoyment level of children engaged in football was very low comparatively to swimming and tennis. Probably because of the hot environment in the summers and water give them cooling and soothing effect. It might also be due to many of the children are those who were first time engaged in swimming or in tennis and many of them get very less chance to be engaged in these type of activities. The average temperature of Gwalior is 45°c in summers, children, involved in land based activity, scorching heat of sun and there is a possibility that might not have been enjoyed for the land based activity (tennis, football). Active participation in physical activity involves maximum enjoyment but it was also seen that if the duration of the activity increases then the children engaged in football class also enjoys the activity. Either due to improvement of skill level or might be due to familiar with the same type of environment.
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