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Katalin Szigeti-Lea Éva Tóth-Anna Szisz
University of Szeged P. E. and Sport Sciences Institute, Szeged, Hungary
Supervisor: Dr. Péter Fritz, assistant professor
Comparative Analysis of Motivations for Recreation in Szeged and Budapest
The lack of exercise and sedentary life-style is a characteristic of the contemporary modern
society. The inactivity can cause illness. According to the survey of Hungarostudy conducted
in 2002 75% of the adults do not go in for sport regularly in Hungary. So it is extremely
important to explore the motivations of doing sport, and with the help of the results we can
effectively inspire the population to go in for some sport.
In our research we would like to focus only on recreational motivations. The results prove that
there is a correlation between the activity in sport and the sex from the flapperdom. On the
average the sport inclination of the men is higher than women‘s. We also experienced this
difference between men and women, but our results show that the age is more determinative
than sex.
We noticed that two factor of motivation (the emotional effect and health) stand out from the
others. Since our primary aim is to make people go in for sport as young as it is possible, we
should mention that (according to our experiences) the most significant motivation for young
people is the emotional effect, which is gradually replaces by the health with the advance in
age. We made a statistical analysis about the relationship between the dominant motivations
and repartition regarding age groups. This analysis proved that this relation mentioned above
is significant (Pearson‘s chi-square test: p