Some Characteristics of Wilderness Backpackers
- 1 June 1973
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Perceptual and Motor Skills
- Vol. 36 (3) , 876-878
- https://doi.org/10.2466/pms.1973.36.3.876
Abstract
72 college men served as Ss in a study conducted to compare wilderness backpackers and non-backpacker non-wilderness users in regard to strength and physical fitness and attitudes toward physical activity. No significant differences were found for strength and fitness. However, the backpackers scored significantly higher on two attitude scales, vertigo and health and fitness. Also, the groups differed in the hierarchical ordering of the attitude scales. Non-backpackers rated the social value of physical activity above all others while the backpackers ranked that subtest fifth in the list of six scales.Keywords
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