Attitudes of the students of Palestine Technical University Kadoorie Ramallah branch towards practicing sports activities

Abstract

 The purpose of this study was to investigate the attitudes of Khadori students towards participation in physical activities. Furthermore, determine the differences in these attitudes according to education program, section, specialization, academic level, living place and social status. To achieve that, the researchers used the questionnaire as the instrument of this study, and which was applied on purpose sample of (96) female students. A modified questionnaire was applied from (Abdullah, 2012) scale to measure the trend towards exercise. After data collection, SPSS was used to analyze the results, and the results revealed low positive attitudes as the percentage of response for the total score was (64.4%), The results also indicated that there were no significant differences in students attitudes due to education program, section, specialization, academic level, living place and social status .The researcher recommends to investing and reinforce students attitudes towards physical activities.