SCIENTIFIC STUDY OF EFFECTIVE FACTORS ON LEISURE TIME PHYSICAL ACTIVITIES AMONG FEMALE HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS BASED ON THE THEORY OF PLANNED BEHAVIOR

摘要

Nowadays, by development of technology and urban living, the lifestyle of people is completely changing. The lack ofparticipation in physical activity, inactivity and sedentary lifestyle has put all members of the society at risk. So,participation in physical activity has been proposed as a way of coping with side effects of such a lifestyle. This paperaims to study related factors of physical activity behavior during leisure time among female high school students byusing the theory of planned behavior (TPB). To do this, a questionnaire was prepared using the above mentioned theory,and considering the sample size of 425, questionnaires were randomly distributed among female high school students inTehran, Iran. After collecting data, they were analyzed in SPSS software. The results of this study showed that the theoryof planned behavior predicts the intention of participation in physical activity among female high school students verywell. According to our findings, there is a strong relationship between “attitude”, “subjective norm”, “perceivedbehavioral control”, and leisure-time physical activity intention.