As a part of the workplace health promotion programme in 2018, a sample of 222 employees have been analysed in a selected company to determine the motivational factors for joining sports recreational programmes.
By means of the online questionnaire 1-ka all the employees of the selected company participating in a sports recreational programme have received the questionnaire. It has been filled out by altogether 222 employees (105 men and 117 women). Questionnaires which were only partly filled out have not been included in the analysis.
The questionnaire is divided into two main parts. The first part includes 6 sociodemographic parameters (gender, age, height, weight, the highest level of education attained, the region of the permanent residence) and a question on the type of work (sedentary or non-sitting). In this part the employees also had to state which of the 4 sports recreational activities offered they have chosen to join as a part of the health prevention programme. Apart form that, the first part also includes 24 questions on the chosen programme and the motives which had contributed to their decision on joining a sports recreational programme.
The second part of the questionnaire pertains to the motivational factors for recreation. For this, “EMI-2, The Exercise Motivations Inventory” questionnaire has been used. The questionnaire includes 51 questions referring to various types of motives for a sports activity.
Three out of five hypotheses have been confirmed. We have established that there is a statistically clear difference between the genders regarding the most common motives for joining the health prevention programme. We have also established that because of their joining the health prevention programme, the employees are currently more active and that the initial and final measures of the body composition have positively motivated the employees to be active.
Two hypotheses have been rejected, as it has been established that there is no statistically clear difference regarding the region of permanent residence and the type of work as being the most common motives for joining the health prevention programme.
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