Gender Differences in Sport and Physical Activity Motivation among University Students

Tasya Salsabila, Ilham Truly Fajri, Muhammad Zambri, Rizaldo Septiano Robaeni

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This study aimed to describe university students' motivation toward sport participation and physical activity and to examine whether such motivation differed by gender. A descriptive-comparative quantitative survey design was employed. The participants were 386 undergraduate students from Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia, cohort 2021, selected using simple random sampling. Data were collected using the International Physical Activity Questionnaire (IPAQ) and the Indonesian version of the Sport Motivation Scale-II (SMS-II). Descriptive statistics were used to summarize response achievement levels, while the Kolmogorov-Smirnov test and Mann-Whitney U test were used for inferential analysis. The results showed that both male and female students demonstrated good motivation toward sport participation, with response achievement levels of 75.62% and 75.43%, respectively. However, motivation toward physical activity differed more clearly: male students reached a good category (68.51%), whereas female students were in the moderate category (63.11%). The Mann-Whitney test indicated no significant gender difference in sport motivation (p = .855), but a significant difference in physical activity motivation (p = .002). These findings highlight the need to distinguish sport from physical activity when designing gender-sensitive campus-based health promotion programs

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gender; motivation; physical activity; sport participation; university students.

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