The Effects of Physical Activity Motives among Adults in Riyadh Province

It has been demonstrated that motivation is essential for sustaining physical exercise. Numerous papers have looked into the connections between extrinsic and intrinsic motivation and a variety of behavioral, affective, and cognitive outcome variables. Motivation Profiles are two cognitive outcome measures employed in motivation research: attention and concentration. Interest, happiness, worry, and good emotions are effective results. Academic achievement and task perseverance are examples of behavioral outcomes. assert that a continuum of self-determination is where all theoretical motives—from motivation to intrinsic motivation—lie. Considering the correlation between healthy psychological functioning and self-determination. It is a cross-sectional study done in Riyadh province, that included adult males and females aged 18 years old. We have selected randomly 204 participants in the period of May to July 2022 to participate in this study. We have used a self-administered online questionnaire. The questionnaire was composed of the following items: age, sex, marital status, type of physical activity, duration of physical activity, motivations of the physical activity, its effect on them, and contraindications for physical activity. We found that out of 204 participants, 127 (62.3%) do sports. on the other hand, the remaining 77 (37.7%) do not. The gender of participants is 120(%58.5) males and 85 (%41.5) females. Of all 204 participants, the majority age group is considered to be 20-30 years old and 30-40 years old with 99 (48.3%), and 54 (26.3%). We found most of the participants do sports activities. Most of those who do sport activity are young (20 - 30).