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Relationship between Swimming Ability of College Students and Their Regular Exercise Habits
1Center for Physical and Health Education, Si-Wan College, National Sun Yat-Sen University, Kaohsiung 804201, Taiwan.
Background:
This study examined the relationship between the five-level swimming ability of college students and their regular exercise habits.
Methods:
This study applied to Academia Sinica for permission to use the raw data from the Survey on the Sports Participation Situations of Students in All Levels of Education, which was conducted by the Sports Administration, Ministry of Education, Taiwan; a secondary data analysis of the obtained data was then conducted.
Results:
Overall, 18,515 pieces of data were selected for analysis, and the results revealed that 85.9% of the surveyed students had learned to swim; those who had regular exercise habits exhibited a higher level of swimming ability than those without such habits. A logistic regression analysis showed that progressing to a higher level of swimming ability increased the likelihood of having regular exercise habits by 20%.
Conclusions:
The present study showed that level of swimming ability was significantly correlated with regular exercise habits. In the future, exercise self-efficacy theories can be applied to explore the relationship between exercise skill proficiency and regular exercise habits.
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