Technical Analysis and Development of Single Bamboo Floating from the Perspective of Education and Psychology
Regressing Dual Side of Motivation on Exercise Commitment in Adults: A Structured Equation Modelling Approach
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Physical activity and exercise is the key to a healthy lifestyle and prevention of disease. Lack of persistency and regular commitment towards exercise are the basic challenges that lead individuals to develop inactive physical lifestyles. Motivation for exercise plays an important role in maintaining healthy lifestyle habits, a pre-requisite a healthy ageing process in the future. In this context, the self-determination theory is a widely used theory in the context of studying the influence of an individual’s motivation for his/her behavior. In this context, the current study has been conducted with the objective to explore how autonomous, controlled and extrinsic motivation influences levels of exercise persistence and exercise commitment with the mediation of exercise enjoyment in China. To achieve this objective, the data was collected from 304 respondents through a survey questionnaire and the collected data was analyzed. The results obtained from the analysis have indicated that the impact of autonomous motivation is positively significant for exercise persistence but is insignificant in case of exercise commitment. Similarly, the impact of controlled motivation is significant and positive for both exercise commitment and persistence. Moreover, the impact of extrinsic motivation is negatively significant for both exercise commitment and persistence. Lastly, exercise enjoyment has significant mediating role between all the independent variables and dependent variables. The study has theoretical as well as practical implications, especially the gym trainers and physical health fitness coaches.
María Dolores Molina Poveda, Eduardo Galak
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The advent of cinema brought with it its use as a propaganda device with which to transmit ideals and doctrines. As a result, newsreels and cinema documentaries were born with the aim of showing the «most relevant» news of the country and abroad, the former with a shorter duration. In this study, the Spanish NO-DO and «Sucesos Argentinos» are used as primary sources to interpret the images and imaginaries that were projected between 1943 and 1955 on female physical culture. The intention is to understand the official discourse of both political regimes on what Argentinean and Spanish society should be like, especially by questioning those meanings about women. In total, 69 issues of NO-DO and 14 editions of «Sucesos Argentinos» have been found which aim to show female physical culture in this period. The female physical culture shown in both newsreels was aimed at strengthening women’s bodies so that they could carry out their «natural functions» (mother, wife, housewife), as well as highlighting their «inferiority» in relation to men through lower impact activities and the homogenization of bodies through clothing, and the performance of the same exercises in synchrony. And all this in countries with different regimes, but which, in the end, coincided.
Keywords:
female physical culture, NO-DO, Sucesos Argentinos, propaganda, audio-visual images
