The Effect of Physical Exercise Toward the Memory Quality of Women

摘要

This research was intended to find out the quality and difference of the memory of women who actively exercise and the memory of women who do not actively exercise. The research method employed was ex post facto method. The population of this resaerch were 55 participants of two aerobic studios in Banjarbaru City. All of them were invited to participate in the preliminary study in the form of a fitness test aimed to determine those who fit to be the samples of group A, which consisted of women who actively exercised, and those who fit to be the samples of group B, which consisted of women who did not actively exercise. In the preliminary study, there were 44 people who were willing to participate, and after the test was conducted, 11 people were considered to meet the standard criteria to be samples of group A; thus, the number of samples in group B was decided to be 11 as well. The sampling technique employed was purposive sampling. The data was analysed by using T-Test. The results of the research show that there was a difference in memory quality between women who actively exercised and women who did not actively exercise, consistent with the criteria of the test with t0 (calculated) value of 2,123 > ttable (20) = 1.72, and p-value of 0.046 < 0.05. The mean of both groups was 0.727. The memory of women who actively exercise is better than the memory of women who do not actively exercise. It can be concluded that physical exercise gives contribution to the improvement of memory quality of women.