Boosting First-year Undergraduate Student Motivation for physical fitness workouts through Quality Instruction: A Study at Bahir Dar University

Abstract

There is a relationship between quality physical fitness instruction and motivation of students for its workouts. However, the degree that quality physical fitness instruction predicts the motivation of students' for its workouts is not examined. The purpose of this study was to examine the extent that quality physical fitness instruction to predict the motivation of first-year undergraduate students for physical fitness workouts. For this, the study used a cross-sectional survey design, collecting quantitative data. The sample included 323 students from 32 sections at Bahir Dar University, Ethiopia, who volunteered to participate in the study. The study used adapted standardized questionnaire for assess the motivation of students and quality of physical fitness instruction. The analysis involves Pearson correlation and multiple linear regressions. The correlation results indicate students' motivation for attending physical fitness course workouts is strongly and directly associated with most quality physical fitness service variables (p<.01). In this study, the regression analysis confirmed that students' identified regulation and external motivation for physical fitness course workouts was moderately (26.7%), 16% and 10.7% predicted by quality physical fitness instructional service variables (p<.05). This finding suggests that providing high-quality fitness instruction is crucial for enhancing student motivation in exercise programs within higher education contexts.