Relationship between physical activity participation and life satisfaction among adults at Seremban, Negeri Sembilan / Anis Adibah Shahrom

Life satisfaction was directly impacted by individual daily physical activity participation. This study was aimed to determine the relationship between physical activity participation and life satisfaction among adults. This study also was designed to detennine the difference of physical activity participation between gender.T he survey using questionnaire approach to 461 of adults at Seremban, Negeri Sembilan. The respondents were chosen by using convenience sampling. For the purpose of this study, the questionnaire was adopted from IPA Q Research Committee (2005) for physical activity participation and Diener, Emmons, Larsen, & Griffin (1985) for life satisfaction. There two statistical that the researcher used which are Pearson correlation to determine the relationship and Independent T-Test to determine the differences. The current study has indicated that, there is no significant relationship between physical activity participation and life satisfaction among adults (r=0.013, p=0.80) and there is significant difference of physical activity between gender (p=0.003) where male (M=2.52, SD=0.80) and female (M=2.26, SD=0.88). This finding will help the government to develop new requirement which all working people from any sector must be physically active and healthy.