An Investigation on the Correlationship among Different Elements of AAHPERED Youth Physical Fitness Test

Abstract

The fitness of an individual, a society, a civilization and a government is very important in the life of the Nation. If a Nation is to remain strong physically, mentally, spiritually, and socially, education for Physical Fitness must be undertaken. It is self-evident that the fit citizens are nation’s best assets and weak ones are liabilities. The wealth of the nation resides in the health and vitality of its people. One of the main objectives of physical activities is to improve physical fitness in people. Different organizations and people have prepared some tests for physical fitness. With the assistance and help of the experts in the field of Physical Fitness, Physical Education, Sports and previous researches on these areas a comprehensive and suitable AAHPERED Physical Fitness Test was select for the study. The aim of this study is to investigate the correlationship among the six- items in AAHPERD Physical Fitness Test. The procedure of this study has been semi-experimental and the tests have been carried out in almost equal conditions. The subjects of this statistical research were 480 male college students were randomly selected from twenty one academic colleges of Hemchandracharya North Gujarat University. Statistical method for data analysis is with respect to the type of study and the scales for it. In this research study, pearson's correlation coefficient was used for the investigation of correlationship among six physical fitness tests by use of SPSS Software. Then based on the use of SPSS Software, significant and no significant were considered with the (p < %5).