Preduetive Factors of Excercise Behauior Consisteney Using Muay Thai

Abstract

This research aimed to 1) examine the relations between the benefits of Muay Thai exercise, the obstacles of Muay Thai exercise, the skills needed in Muay Thai exercise, the impressions of practising Muay Thai exercise and the interpersonal and situational influences on consistency of practising Muay Thai exercise and 2) create a forecasting for consistency of Muay Thai exercise. The sampling consists of 407 individuals using multistage random sampling. The tool is a questionnaire on factors that forecast the consistency in exercising Muay Thai created by the researcher. Data are analyzed by using percentage, mean, standard deviation, T-scores, Pearson Correlation Coefficients and multiple regression analysis.

The results reveal that 1) the following factors forecasting consistency in Muay Thai exercise are found to be as follows. Benefit perception is at high level. Obstacle perception is at medium level. Skill-needed perception is at high level. Impression of Muay Thai exercise is at high level. The interpersonal influence affecting Muay Thai exercise is at medium level and the situational influence affecting Muay Thai exercise is at high level and 2) the factors that can help predict Muay Thai exercise consistency are the skill needed and the interfering factors in practising Muay Thai exercise. Both of these factors can explain the variation in exercising behaviours of the sampling. The sampling shows consistency in Muay Thai exercise at 78.10 percent. The positive factors are statistically significant at .05.