Comparing Female Students' Motivation to Participate in Physical Education at First State Middle School in Malang City to Women in Buleleng Regency, Bali

Abstract

Motivation is the driving force and determinant of human behaviour. The aim of this study is to find out the extent of motivation of women to participate in physical education, specifically in carrying out movement activities. The population of this study was female junior high school students from Class VII, VIII, and IX in Malang City, East Java, and women from Buleleng Regency, Bali. The data obtained included 650 respondents. In the Mann-Whitney test, they got 0.000, both groups were smaller than 0.05 (p-value <0.05), then Ho was rejected, meaning that there was a significant difference. It can be concluded that there is a significant difference in the motivation of female students from Malang City, East Java with the motivation of women from Buleleng Regency, Bali.
 Keywords: motivation, woman, physical education