Abstract:

This study aims to study the relationship between the motivations of high school students to participate in physical activity and body mass index. The research was carried out by Sarıkamış Şehit Major Bedir Kaarabıyık Anadolu High School, which continued its education in 9th, 10th, 11th, and 12th classes, with a total of 101 students participating as volunteers, including women and 38 men. In the study, the Personal Information Form and the Physical Activity Participation Motivation Scale (FAKMÖ) developed by Tekkurşun-Demir and Cicioğlu (2018) were used. In the analysis of the data, stansart deviation, arithmetic average, t test for independent samples, one-way variance analysis (ANOVA), Post-Hoc tests (Tukey HSD) were used. According to the findings obtained in the study, there was no significant difference between the motivation to participate in physical activity by gender. According to the class level, individual reasons found that the 12th grade in the lower dimension and the 11th grade in the uncertainty size were significantly low. According to the body mass index, the individual cause scores of obese students and the uncertainty scores of overweight students have been found to be significantly lower than others. The study found that the motivation to participate in physical activity did not vary according to women and men, and that there were significant differences according to class levels. It is also achieved as a result that the BPIs of students with low motivation to participate in physical activity are high.

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