A STUDY ON ATTITUDE TOWARDS PHYSICAL ACTIVITY IN MUSLIM COMMUNITY

Abstract

Physical activity in Muslim Community is always been encouraged by the Imams as well as family members. Irrespective of this fact both gender have different kind of attitude towards physical activities. The study has been conducted to find out and compare the differences in attitude of male and female school going adolescents aged 13 to 15 years residing at Malda District, West Bengal, India. The modified version of Kenyon Attitude toward Physical Activity (Kenyon ATPA) by Tan (26) has been used to gather information on attitude towards physical activity. Descriptive Statistics, Independent t-test has been used to analyse and compare on the selected variables. It has been found that irrespective of gender most of the participants have either ‘Totally Agreed’ or ‘Agreed’ in all the subdomains as well as in overall attitude towards physical activity. Further female have significantly better and superior attitude in the subdomains Catharsis and Aesthetic as well as in Overall Attitude than the male adolescents belonging to Muslim Community.