Comparative Study on Memory Quality of Women Who Actively Exercise and Women Who Do Not Actively Exercise
Ayla Maulida
Lambung Mangkurat University
Abstract
This research was intended to find out the quality and difference of the memory of women who actively exercise and the memory of women who do not actively exercise. The research method employed was ex post facto method. The population of this resaerch were participants of two aerobic studios in Banjarbaru City surveyed, numbering 55 people, all of whom were invited to participate in the preliminary study in the form of a fitness test aimed to determine those who fit to be the samples of group A, which consisted of women who actively exercised, and those who fit to be the samples of group B, which consisted of women who did not actively exercise. In the preliminary study, there were 44 people who were willing to participate and after the test was conducted, 11 people were considered to meet the standard criteria to be samples of group A; thus, the number of samples in group B was decided to be 11 as well. The sampling technique employed was purposive sampling. The results of the research show that there was a difference in memory quality between women who actively exercised and that of women who did not actively exercise, consistent with the criteria of the test with t0(calculated) value of 2,123 > ttable(20) = 1.72, andp-value of 0.046 < 0.05. The mean of both groups, which was 0.727, is shown in the Mean Difference Column. It can be concluded there is a difference in the memory quality between women who actively exercise and women who do not actively exercise, where the memory of women who actively exercise is better than the memory of women who do not actively exercise
Keywords: Comparative, Exercise, Memory, Woman.
Topic: Community Sport Development (CSD)