Boonstoppel, Merleyn D. (2023) Gender Differences in Physical Fitness Relevant for the Community Wise Intervention. Bachelor thesis, Psychology.
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Abstract
With an ageing population, the need for interventions supporting elderly well-being increases. Community Wise is such an intervention and focusses on areas with low socioeconomic status (SES), where inhabitants stand increased risk for challenges to their well-being. The present study aimed to find suggestions for further fine tuning of the intervention. To do so, it explored gender differences in objective and subjective physical fitness. It then tried to show the importance of especially subjective fitness and its potentially positive effect on social and physical activity. The Community Wise intervention consists of 12 weekly sessions, stimulating social activity and physical fitness, and increasing self-management abilities. The effects of the intervention were studied with a pretest-posttest experimental design. Medium effect sizes for pre- and post-intervention gender differences in subjective physical fitness suggest significant differences at larger sample sizes (d = .434 and d = .487). Pre-intervention subjective physical fitness was positively correlated with social activity (n = 53, ρ = .26, p = .029) and pre- to post- intervention change in leg strength (n = 39, ρ = .29, p = .035). Although established gender differences were not significantly reproduced, the results do support the suggestion that subjective physical fitness might have a positive influence on social activity and strength exercises. Suggestions for further research were made.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Bachelor) |
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| Supervisor name: | Goedendorp, M.M. |
| Degree programme: | Psychology |
| Differentiation route: | None [Bachelor Psychology] |
| Date Deposited: | 01 May 2023 09:39 |
| Last Modified: | 01 May 2023 09:39 |
| URI: | http://gmwpublic.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/1914 |
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