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KMID : 1023920150170030007
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Journal of the Korean Academy of Kinesiology
2015 Volume.17 No. 3 p.7 ~ p.15
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Participation Level, Rating of Perceived Exertion, Exercise Commitment and Exercise Adherence of Marathon Participation
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Lee Yang-Joo
Kim Ah-Ram
An Keun-Ok
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Abstract
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PURPOSE: The purposes of this study were to identify the difference among rating of perceived exertion (RPE) of marathon enthusiasts, their exercise commitment, exercise adherence according to personal characteristics, and to verify the causal relationship among the variables of exercise commitment, and exercise adherence.
METHODS: The data were collected with purposive sampling from 360 marathon enthusiasts who have completed a full course marathon more than one time. With exclusion of 20 subjects due to missing survey or insincere responses. The data from 340 participants were analyzed by one-way ANOVA using SPSS WIN 18.0.
RESULTS: This study found following results. First, the participants who had lower participation rate had higher RPE. Second, as for exercise commitment according to RPE, light-moderate intensity group showed higher cognitive commitment and behavioral commitment than moderate-hard intensity group and very hard-maximal intensity group.
CONCLUSIONS: This study showed that the personal characteristics of a marathon participants are strongly related to RPE, exercise commitment, exercise adherence.
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KEYWORD
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marathon, rating of perceived exertion, exercise commitment, exercise adherence
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