SOC 2290: Research Methods
The theoretical orientation of this research will focus on the theory of knowledge f the social scientifically research. The approach will examine the relationship between the level of exercise and personal health, which will illustrate whether the individual 's personal health is impacted by his/her level of exercise or if there are additional variables that might effect this causal relationship.
The significance of the study review the issues and factors, whether increasing an individual`s overall level of exercise will result in an increase in the individual`s health. The study does focus on a sample of University of Manitoba Students; the independent variable being the level of exercise and the dependent
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Conceptual framework
Independent variable Constant variable Dependent variable
Independent variable: The level of exercise is measured by how much a student’s exercise per week
Dependent variable: Is measured by the individual weekly health measurements
Control variable: Is measure by the students degree of food intake, whether healthy food or non-healthy food. Section 2: Univeriate analysis
Independent variable: level of Exercise
A measure of central tendency was computed to summarize the data for the level of exercise. A measure of dispersion is computed to understand the variability scores of the independent variable. The following are the results obtained from the data collection sample size = 1238, Mean = 1.99, Median = 2.00, Mode = 1.00 and SD = 0.889 variable. When looking at the mean, it appears that most students responded to the variable in the questionnaires. And it shows that distribution is symmetric since the mean is close to equal the median, which concludes that this variable has a close to zero skewness.
Statistics
Q1B recoded
N Valid 1238 Missing 7
Mean 1.9919
Median 2.0000
Mode 1.00
Std. Deviation .88913
Variance .791
Range 2.00
Minimum 1.00
Maximum 3.00
Q1B recoded Frequency Percent Valid Percent Cumulative Percent
Valid Dissatisfied 494 39.7 39.9 39.9 Neither 260 20.9 21.0 60.9 Satisfied 484 38.9 39.1 100.0 Total 1238 99.4
The significance for this research project is that it will provide relevant and up to date data of the current levels of physical activity within Australian adults. This project will deliver an in-depth analysis of the frequency, quantity, duration, and variety of physical activity among Australians. It will also provide information about what factors are promoting a healthy lifestyle and what barriers are preventing adults from achieving the recommended weekly levels of physical activity. The research will address:
In this case, the independent variable is the gender and the dependent variable is the
A person’s level of physical activity is directly related to their physical literacy making it an extremely important topic. Canada’s Active for Life Long Term Athlete Development (LTAD) Model studies a variety of factors regarding the physical activity levels of Canadians. The topics that are studied include, the relationship between physical literacy and exercise behavior and adherence, developmental age, sensitive periods, mental, cognitive, and emotional development, competition, system alignment and integration, and continuous improvement. There are many other resources for finding information regarding people’s physical activity levels, including Statistics Canada; this source has an array of figures, from the annual census, regarding the populations of specific areas. For example, the Moncton, New Brunswick, 2016 census can be used to determine exercise behavior and adherence among local residents by using the figures presented along with other statistics from sources such as Weinberg and Gould’s book Foundations of Sport and Exercise Psychology.
The data collected from a survey performed by the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System regarding time, frequency and proportion of exercise reports that 58.1% of the interviewees were considered physically inactive; 29.8 % concluded with not having time for exercising. Besides, the statistics showed that there was not much difference between genders as it was almost the same percentage of passive lifestyle; however, there were differences when considering race and age (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [CDC], 2010).
Q1A) In what ways does the biological constitution of a living organism determine, influence or limit its sense perception?
Since 1990s, many scientists agree that exercise has positive impacts on people’s physical health and mental health (SIME WE, 1987). From Morgan and O’Connor’s research, people can reduce stress and state anxiety by doing physical activities; also gain emotional pleasure from the process (Morgan and O’Connor, 1988). Later in 1997, Landers states that physical activities can reduce people depression after weeks of regular and routine exercise. In addition, people can benefit from more
Exercise plays a beneficial role for many health concerns in general and improves quality of life
In the High School Longitudinal Study database the variables are measured by a number. Measurement variables could be referred to as quantitative variables or numeric variables. These variables could be nominal, ordinal, interval or ratio variables. In most cases a researcher would be most interested in the dependent variable. Examples of dependent variable are usually weight, height or length. Examples of independent variables are time, age. Things that would cause the dependent variable.
The SF-12 questionnaire was used to assess the health status of the subjects. The data was looked at sorting by gender differences and the activity level categories as they wanted to know these differences. The results showed a significant effect between physical activity levels and health status but there was not a significant change when looking at health status when separating by gender. The effect found between physical activity levels and mental health showed that 150 minutes was sufficient to increase mental health. For all physical activity over 150 minutes there was not an increase to show the subjects continued to increase their health status.
The independent variable is an exposure to active decision-making based on calculations of material commitment to providing and withholding blood; however, age, sex, and racial or ethnic characteristics are subject variables that cannot be controlled no matter what.
4. Haskell WL, Lee IM, Pate RR, et al. Physical activity and public health: updated recommendation for adults from the American College of Sports Medicine and the American Heart Association. Med Sci Sports Exerc 2007; 39(8):1423-34. Abstract available at:
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We live in a strange and puzzling world. Despite the exponential growth of knowledge in the past century, we are faced by a baffling multitude of conflicting ideas. The mass of conflicting ideas causes the replacement of knowledge, as one that was previously believed to be true gets replace by new idea. This is accelerated by the rapid development of technology to allow new investigations into knowledge within the areas of human and natural sciences. Knowledge in the human sciences has been replaced for decades as new discoveries by the increased study of humans, and travel has caused the discarding of a vast array of theories. The development of
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