Motivation for Fitness Aerobics among Women Living in Countryside

Volume 2, Number 4, 2017, P. 71–76

[ PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCES ]

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Abstract:

The article presents the results of an empirical study of the motivation for doing sports among women
of different age groups. Comparative analysis suggests that there are some differences in the motivation for
fitness aerobics among girls and adult women living in countryside.

Keywords:

motive, motivation of sports activity, health sport, fitness aerobics, rural woman’s lifestyle, maturity

Authors:

Adushinova Al’bina Grigoryevna, Candidate of Pedagogical Sciences, Associate Professor of Psychology Department, Irkutsk National Research Technical University, Irkutsk, Russia

Bibaeva Evgeniya Valeryevna, a student of Psychology Department

For citation:

E.V. Bibaeva A.G. Adushinova. Motivation for fitness aerobics among women living in countryside // Social Competence. 2017, vol. 2, no. 4, pp. 71–76. (In Russian)

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