Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Sport Science, Health, and Physical Education (ICSSHPE 2018)

The Phenomenon of Women’s Body Mass Index

Authors
Mustika Fitri, Jajat Jajat
Corresponding Author
Mustika Fitri
Available Online September 2019.
DOI
10.2991/icsshpe-18.2019.40How to use a DOI?
Keywords
body mass index; women, sport recreation program; healthy living behaviour; pre-obesity; obesity level 1
Abstract

The article aims to discuss about Body Mass Index (BMI) of women. The research uses mix method. The data are collected by studying 186 participants. The participants are 99 early women adults and 87 late women adults. All of them join the sport recreation program in different sport clubs in Bandung. They join the program for about one year. The analysis are started by finding the phenomenon of the BMI of participants. The researcher uses formula to measure the participants’ body mass index. Then, independent samples of t-test are calculated to determine BMI differences. Finally, it shows that there are significance BMI differences between early women adults and late women adults (p<0.023). Since it is considered that the participants are categorized: early and late women adults, the result can be revealed in thick and deep phenomenon. It shows that late women adults have more percentage for pre-obesity and obesity level 1 than the early ones. The researcher also find out their reason in joining the sport recreation program. Their healthy living behaviors can be affected by their geographic location.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Sport Science, Health, and Physical Education (ICSSHPE 2018)
Series
Advances in Health Sciences Research
Publication Date
September 2019
ISBN
978-94-6252-791-1
ISSN
2468-5739
DOI
10.2991/icsshpe-18.2019.40How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
Open Access
This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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