Psycho-physiological response, metamotivational dominance and sport preferences during exercise different intensities: The Svebak triangular design test

This research utilized reversal theory to examine the Svebak triangular design (motivational characteristic، biological composition and sport or exercise preference) between Psycho-physiological response، metamotivational dominance and sport preferences during exercise different intensities. For this purpose، the Telic Dominant Scale and Asterand test used to determine metamotivational dominance and maximal consumption oxygen (Vo2max) respectively in 156 male students. At the result، 30 participants with 40-45 Vo2max randomly determined. The present study included run out the treadmill with 40-45 and 80-85 Vo2max% intensities. In both test condition، participants completed the Tension-Effort Stress Questionnaire in pretest and post test phases. Also، participants’ heart rate measured in test phases entire. After checking the date’s normality using Kolmogorov-Smirnov test and variances equality with Levene test، dates analyzed with one way variance analyze with repeated measure on intensity factor and independent t test statistical methods. The results indicated that there was significant difference between telic and paratelic participants in 80-85 Vo2max% intensity (sig=0. 03) and 40-45 Vo2max% intensity (sig=0. 045) for positive emotion، in 80-85 Vo2max% intensity (sig=0. 001) for negative emotion، in 80-85 Vo2max% intensity (sig=0. 001) and 40-45 Vo2max% intensity (sig=0. 004) for tension stress، in 80-85 Vo2max% intensity (sig=0. 001) and 40-45 Vo2max% intensity (sig=0. 01) for effort stress، in 80-85 Vo2max% intensity (sig=0. 01) for heart rate. In 80-85 Vo2mam% intensity، paratelic participants experienced higher positive and lower tension-effort stress and heart rate than telic participants; whereas، in 40-45 Vo2max% intensity، this result replicated for telic participants. The results completely confirmed Svebak triangular design.