Examining the effect of high school students' motivations to participate in physical activity on their cognitive behavioral physical activity levels

Analyzing of the Relationship Between Cognitive Behavioral Physical Activity Levels And Participation Motivation in Physical Activity. The aim of this study is to analyze the relationship between cognitive behavioral physical activity levels and participation motivation in physical activity. In this research, scanning method, one of the quantitative research models, was used. The research's sample consist of high school students , selected randomly , from public school affiliated to the Ministry of National Education in Tokat City Center and district of Tokat , Artova, in academic year of 2023-2024. The sample of the study is 600 volunteer students. The personal information form prepared by the researcher and used to determine the demographic information of the participants as a data collection tool in the research and the "Physical Activity Participation Motivation Scale'' prepared by Tekkurşun-Demir and Cicioğlu (2018) in order to learn the motivations of students' participation to physical activity, determined in suitability with the purpose of the research , in order to learn students' cognitive behavioral physical activity levels , "Cognitive Behavioral and Physical Activity Questionnaire (CBPAQ)" developed by Schembre et al. (2015) and adapted Turkish by Eskiler et al. (2016) was used. To analyze the data, SPSS 22 Package program was used . By examining standard deviation, kurtosis and skewness values, normal distribution of the data was tested. While analyzing, descriptive statistics multiple lineer regression analysis, parametric tests of independent samples t-test and ANOVA were used. According to the results, physical activity participation motivation scale has no significant effect on individual reasons ( feel happy, excited, relax and enjoy doing physical activity) and enviromental reasons ( teacher, family, peers, trainer, gaining, rivalry, reward, level up, goal and ambition ) sub-dimensions' cognitive behavioral and physical activity scale outcome expectation; lack of reason sub-dimension has no effect on outcome expectation sub-dimension; physical activity participation motivation scale sub-dimensions ,individual and enviromental reasons, have a significant effect on cognitive behavioral and physical activity scale sub-dimension , self regulation; lack of reason sub-dimension has no effect on self regulation sub-dimension; physical activity participation motivation scale sub-dimensions ,enviromental reasons and lack of reason, has an effect on cognitive behavioral and physical activity scale sub-dimension individual disability; individual reasons sub-dimension have no effect on individual disability sub-dimension. Keywords: Cognitive Behavior; Physical Activity; Motivation For Participation; Motivation; High School Students