Abstract:
Factors that influence physical activities of college students. The purposes of this study were to study university students physical activities and factors related to university students physical activities in Bangkok. This survey research was studied the sample which consisted of 460 university students in Bangkok by using questionnaires created by the researchers. The content validity ratio of the questionnaires was 0.86, and the reliability was 0.81. The data analysis was conducted by using statistic, percentage, mean, and standard deviation. Pearson's correlation coefficient was used to determine the correlation. The research results can be concluded as follows: 1. University students in Bangkok have an improvement required degree of overall knowledge about physical activities (X ̅ = 7.81), have a very good attitude toward physical activities (X ̅ = 4.34), and have an average overall physical activity behavior (X ̅ = 1.94). 2. The predisposing factors of knowledge have negative correlation with the physical activity behavior (r = -0.15). However, the predisposing factors of attitude have positive correlation with the physical activity behavior (r = 0.12), and the enabling factors and the reinforcing factors have positive correlation with the physical activity behavior (r = 0.21 and r = 0.23) respectively. In conclusion, college students in Bangkok still need to improve on their knowledge when it comes to physical activities. The knowledge of physic activities and the actual behaviors have an opposite relationship to each other. Enabling factors and reinforcing factors are in the same direction as the behavioral factors. Therefore, colleges should develop more physical activities-related courses and should make the learning environment more approachable.