Journal of Physical Education Research

01-07

Authors: van Heerden CH

Reasons for participation in sport differ and intrinsic motivation, extrinsic motivation and even amotivation can influence the decision. In the South African context little research has been done on the differences of motivation among male and female students to participate in sport. This study sought to understand the relationship between certain motivation drivers and sport participation. It also explored the gender variable and whether there are differences between male and female athletes in terms of their motivation for participating in sport. A non-probability sample was used and 199 respondents participated. Results indicate that there was a negative correlation between amotivation and sport participation. Furthermore, it was found that there is a positive correlation between intrinsic and extrinsic motivation. A last finding is that there are no significant differences between the gender groups and their motivation for sport participation. It is trusted that these finding will contribute to the subject area of sport and more specifically the relative similarity of gender motivations for participating in sport. Keywords:Sport participation, extrinsic motivation, intrinsic motivation, amotivation, gender, undergraduate students.

13-26

Authors: Manisha Manoj Kondhare, Usha Khodgire

The purpose of the study was to identify the common pregnancy related physiological complaints among the women during pregnancy at selected hospitals in Pune city. The population in this study consisted of Pune city women who attended the antenatal exercises classes from selected hospitals. The researcher selected total 71 subjects as a sample for the study. To achieve the objectives of the present study researcher constructed the questionnaire for the purpose of data collection. For collection of data researcher used closed ended type questionnaire. Data were numerically coded and captured in Excel, using an SPSS software program. The researcher used Descriptive statistics percentage and inferential statistics Pearson Chi-Square in this research. Out of 69, 57 (82.6%) subjects were suffering from back pain, out of this 56 subjects (98.2%) got positive results and (1.8%) has no change in the back pain, out of 69, 40 subjects (58%) were suffering from fatigue, laziness, but antenatal exercises helped 32 subjects (80%) to reduce the fatigue, laziness etc and 20% subjects has no change. Out of 69, 59 subjects (85.5%) were having leg cramp. 58 subjects (98.3%) got relief from leg cramp and (1.7%) has no change in the leg cramp. In this study participants (Pregnant women) who received antenatal exercises helps to reduce the back pain, fatigue and laziness and leg cramp i.e. selected physiological complaints during pregnancy. Keywords: Pregnancy, antenatal exercise.

31-36

Authors: Vahid Rouhollahi, Mansoorehossadat Rozan, Akhil Mehrotra, Dilip Kumar Dureha

This study focused on relationship between each phases of decision-making process and playing experience to find out thathow playing experience is involved in the quality of decision-making inmale field hockey players. Sixty (60) male field hockey players from different competitive levels were selected randomlyin India.General information questionnaire and decision-making quality questionnaire have been used for the purpose of gathering related information. The present study indicated that, playing experience may be related with decision-making process except response selection. Keywords: Visual search strategies, anticipation, expertise levels, field hockey.

42-50

Authors: K. P. Manoj

The purpose of the study was to find out the prominent contributing dermatoglyphic factors among national level men Cyclists. The subjects were 80 cyclists, who have participated in the National Cycling Championship held at New Delhi in March 1993 and in the III National Games held at Pune in January 1994. Forty dermatoglyphic variables were selected for this study. They included ( 1) Types of finger pattern, (2) Ridge counts (3) Pattern intensity (4) Ridge count per square Cms (5) Attained angles, and (6) Matric analysis of the palm. Factor Analysis (Principal Component Analysis) was done to find out the prominent dermatoglyphic factors comprising of any one or all of the selected dermatoglyphic variables among male cyclists. The unloaded factors obtained were then rotated by Varimax method to find out the final solution. Item with loading greater than or equal to  0.40 of Varimax solution were selected for discussing each factor. Four prominent factors extracted after factor analysis were Ridge Count Factor, Horizontal Inter Triradial Distance Factor, Angular Factor & Shortest Inter Triradial Distance Factor. Keywords: Dermatoglyphic patterns, cyclists.

57-62

Authors: Asim Khan, Ikram Hussain

This study was structured to detect whether the joints velocity during approach run has an impact on the jump height (performance). For the purpose of this study twelve male high jumpers who perform Fosbury-flop technique were recruited as the subjects. To acquire kinematical data during the competition the camcorder mounted at a height of 1.5 meters was placed at 10 meters away, perpendicular to the approach area. All subjects were performed three jumps, all the jump performances were recorded and downloaded in the personal computer and only successful jump performance of each subject was selected for further analysis. The digitization of the obtained data was done with the help of Silicon Coach Pro7 software. The kinematical variables for the study were ankle, knee, hip, shoulder and elbow joints’ velocity. All statistical procedureswere conducted using the SPSS 16.0. The correlation-coefficient was used to establish a relationship between biomechanical variables and jump height (performance) of high jumpers. The results of the study revealed that there was significant relationship exist between ankle, hip, shoulder and elbow joint velocity with the jump height (performance) and insignificant relationship existed between knee joint velocity and jump height (performance). On the basis of the results it is concluded that during the approach run the velocity of the different joints affect the jump height (performance of the high jumpers). Keywords: Biomechanics, Inter University, Fosbury-flop, Segmental joints and Velocity.