Role of physical environment understanding and quality of health on participation in leisure time physical activity for active and inactive sportstudents

Background: The purpose of this research is investigating the relationship between environment understanding and physical health quality with participation in leisure time physical activity among students of Islamic Azad University of Tehran. Materials and methods: For this purpose 302 male and female physical education studentswith a age mean (23.2±6.9 years) that have background of participation in leisure time physical activity using cluster sampling and randomly were selected and voluntarilycompleted questionnaire of perception physical environment and physical activity participation in leisure time Kyajyng Lee (2010) and Goldberg and Hiller quality health (1979) questionnaire 28-item (including four components of physical health, sleep disorders,dysfunction and depression). Data analysis using descriptive statistics (measures of central tendency and dispersion) and test Kolmogrof - Smirnov test, with Levin and Pearson correlation coefficient at 0/05 significant level was done by Spss software.Result and discussion: The results showed that between quality of physical environment and access to physical activity with participation in leisure time physical activity, there is asignificant relationship. Also, between the components of health quality (physical health, depression), and participation in leisure time physical activity there is a significant relationship. The results showed that the lack of proper structure participation in physicalactivity in leisure time in our country has led most participants having a superficial attitude and unstructured leisure activities appropriate and based more on personal attitude and onedimensional attempt to engage in physical activity and leisure time.Conclusion: This research concluded with increasing age, participation in leisure timephysical activity reduced. But income is directly related to leisure participation rate thatmeans with increasing revenue people more willing to participate in physical activity in leisure time.

Keywords:

Understanding physical environment , public health , participation in leisure time physical activity , students