Table 8.
Salient Circumstances Hindering Participation in Physical Activity
| Salient Circumstances that Hinder | Percent Mentioning (%) |
| Having too many assignments | 48.4 |
| Busy study schedule | |
| Too much assignment | |
| Bad academic scores | |
| Before exam | |
| It take long time to work on assignment | |
| Have too much extra courses on weekend | |
| Not having enough time | 18.8 |
| Time is tight | |
| No time | |
| Waste time | |
| It is very late when class is over | |
| Have something else to do | |
| Class teacher taking up the time | |
| Having bad weather | 18.1 |
| Bad weather | |
| Windy, rainy outside | |
| Snow, raining | |
| Air is polluted | |
| Cold | |
| Cloudy, raining | |
| It is hot | |
| Being tired, sick, or too fat | 17.4 |
| Obese, or have a lot of fat | |
| Sleepy | |
| Being sick | |
| Feel hungry | |
| My body can't stand it. | |
| Tired | |
| Lazy | |
| No energy | |
| Having nobody to go with | 6.5 |
| My parents don't have time to take me to do physical activity | |
| Nobody go with me | |
| Myself | |
| Disapproval from others | 5.2 |
| My parents don't agree | |
| I, myself don't approve | |
| Classmates don't agree | |
| School don't agree | |
| Not being willing | 5.2 |
| Don't want to do physical activity | |
| Lazy | |
| Don't want to | |
| Being in a bad mood | 5.1 |
| Don't have mood | |
| Teacher criticize me, so that I don't have a good mood | |
| Bad mood | |
| Having no court or facility | 5.1 |
| Don't have facility | |
| Don't have court | |
| Society is messy | |
| More car in cities | |
| Grounds | |
| Insufficiency of facility | |
| Having TV, computer games, and other things to do instead | 4.5 |
| Good game to play | |
| Play computer | |
| Watching TV | |
| Have good movie | |
| Having activities that are not fun or too hard | 3.2 |
| Activity is too vigorous | |
| Don't have fun activity to play | |
| Boring activity |