Self Awareness of Badminton Athletes toward Healthy Lifestyle
Eghie Marvianissa, Basiran Basiran, Ridha Mustaqim and Widi Kusumah
Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia, Jln. Dr. Setiabudhi No. 229 Bandung, Indonesia
Keywords: Self Awareness, Healthy Lifestyle, Badminton Athletes.
Abstract: This research explained about profile of badminton athletes towards healthy lifestyle. The purpose of this
research is knowing profile of badminton athletes Self Awareness at UKM UPI towards healthy lifestyle,
specifically to find information in healthy eating habit and sleeping habit. The lack of Self Awareness towards
healthy lifestyle from badminton athletes pre match, match time, and after match season became the
background of this research. The method with surveys, and questioner as instrument. The finding are (1) the
picture of Self Awareness towards healthy eating habit from badminton athletes is 68% with enough criteria;
(2) the picture of Self Awareness towards sleeping habit is 66% with enough criteria.
1 INTRODUCTION
Self-awareness is the ability to recognize what feeling
is and why a person feels that way as well as to know
the effect of one's behavior on others. Such abilities
include assertiveness, independence, self-esteem,
actualization (Stein and Howard in Kharis, 2014, pp.
8).
Awareness is very important for athletes. Athletes
must show their skills with full awareness. The athlete
must be able to control his muscles, his emotions and
his thought which are integrated in his performance.
When the athlete is conscious enough and focused on
the task at hand, the athlete must have control to cope
with various situations (Wicklund, 1975).
"Sometimes, many athletes are unable to control their
desire to do things that are not good for their body.
Thus, the athlete is unable to control himself for the
progress of his performance.
Awareness that athletes need at this time is not
only exercising but also the ability to maintain his
lifestyle. According Assael (in Simajuntak, 2015, p.
1), lifestyle is "A mode of living that is identified by
how people spend Reviews their time (activities),
what they Consider important in their environment
(interest) and what they think of Themselves and the
world around them (opinions)". It is generally
understood as a lifestyle recognized by how people
spend their time (activity), what important things that
people consider from their surroundings (interests),
and what people think about themselves and the
world around (opinions). Lifestyle according to
Broker (in Akbar, 2012, p.10) "Some common traits
of lifestyle are lifestyle as a pattern that is something
done or performed repeatedly". In everyone's each
life, it will be different. The way of life is not
something natural, but something that is discovered,
adopted or created, developed and used to perform
actions to achieve a certain goal. In order that to be
mastered, some ways must be known, used and
familiarized. In the scope of the athlete’s life which
will be related to health, lifestyle that must be owned
by them is certainly a healthy lifestyle. Keeping a
healthy lifestyle on athletes is very important to do.
But the fact is there are many athletes who are not
aware of the need to make a healthy lifestyle
(Feinberg, 1988).
Healthy lifestyle according to Kusmaedi (in Iqbal,
2014, pp. 8) "Healthy lifestyle is a way or method of
action or appearance that is governed by certain
health standards". Compared to the general public or
non-athletes, the need to have a healthy lifestyle
athletes should be higher due to having more severe
activity affect the appearances. In other words, their
lives should be balanced with a healthy lifestyle.
At this current time, a healthy lifestyle is popular
among the wider community, it can be seen from the
restaurant that carries out the theme of health, as well
as the number of training places to set a healthy
lifestyle. People begin to understand and be conscious
to live healthy, and one of the way is by following a
healthy lifestyle. Within the scope of the general
public, people start to realize the importance of
healthy living. Then, athletes in the world of sports
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for achievement have an obligation to be more aware
of healthy lifestyles (Bowling, 2004).
In providing the performance, athletes who are
willing to have a good performance should
understand that it is not merely based on how often
the athlete is practicing. In addition to psychological
factors, physical, tactics is a healthy lifestyle of the
athlete. According to Irianto (2006, pp. 139), there are
three main factors to which athletes can be said
committing a healthy lifestyle, "The degree of health
and fitness is influenced by three main factors,
namely eating, rest, exercise". If any particular athlete
has a high risk work activity, then a balanced eating
arrangement is preferably needed as well as getting
an adequate rest that can restore energy used.
Diet, according to Farida (in Akbar, 2012, p.15) is
"The composition of the type and amount of food
consumed by a person or group of persons." Healthy
diet, according to Kardjono (2013, pp. 8) mentions
that "Well-chosen daily foods will provide all the
nutrients needed for normal body function.
Conversely, if food is not well chosen, the body will
experience deficiencies of certain essential
substances ". Those essential substances can be
imported from the food we eat. If athletes do not eat
good and healthy food then his body's function will
be disrupted. (Hoyt, 2011; Provencher, 2009)
explains that:
An athlete seeks to maximize his performance,
and he is aware that any disruption to the body system
will inhibit it. A well-functioning athlete’s body is
essential for optimal performance. That can be
achieved by simply supplying the best quality fuel
through food and drink before and during the
competition.
Basically, a healthy diet is very important to
support the body's metabolism to perform strenuous
activities such as athletes. However, at this time there
are still many athletes who do not pay attention to
healthy intake for their bodies. It surely shows the
importance of athlete's awareness to understand
themselves a healthy diet and adequate rest (Phillips,
1975).
Activities performed by athletes classified as a
strenuous activity. After having done some activities,
the athlete requires adequate rest for the condition of
his body so that they can remain in good condition.
Rest is a quiet state, relaxed without emotional
distress and free from anxiety. While sleep is a
physiological state of rest for the needs of body and
mind. Sleep is a basic human need, because the body
can be refreshed and again have a full restored energy.
Another benefit of sleeping is being able to restore
bodily functions. According to Potter (in Maqassary,
2014, pp. 1) "Sleeping is believed to be able to restore
energy because sleeping gives time for repairing and
healing the body system for the next working period".
The athlete needs a resting pattern, a good and correct
rest pattern is still not realized by the athlete. In fact,
in the human body functions, enough rest and at the
right time will make the body become fresher.
Athletes do not realize how important to take rest at
the right time. They, unexpectedly, sleep until late at
night without realizing sleeping late at night will have
an impact on the condition of the athlete. It will be
intertwined with the athlete's performance conditions
(Feinberg, 1967).
Not only athletes, but also coaches are needed to
provide knowledge about the right lifestyle for
athletes. It is due to the current growing problem of
many athletes and coaches who are not aware of the
lifestyle for their health yet. Self-awareness is an
important part of achieving the peak performance in
sports. The writer chose badminton because
badminton is one of the popular sport in Indonesia
which has long been incised a lot of achievements in
the international competitions. The writer wanted to
find out whether the sport's achievements that have
long had many achievements, have athletes who are
aware of a healthy lifestyle. In line with that, the
writer also wanted to find out whether the institution
has a particular concern to direct its athletes to have a
healthy lifestyle (Chiuve, 2006).
Departing from the things above, the writer
wanted to know how the athlete's awareness of a
healthy lifestyle. By finding out the awareness rate of
athletes, his concern for the performance of the
achievement can also be seen. It is based on an
understanding that a healthy lifestyle will affect the
appearance of good athletes during practice, before
match and after game.
2 METHODS
The use of appropriate methods in a scientific study
will determine the achievement of a problem-solving
goal in the study. Therefore, a certain method is
needed to be collected for the success of the research.
Regarding research, methods are usually tailored to
the goals to be achieved in a study. The use of
research methods depends on the issues to be
discussed. In other words, research methods must be
qualified through effectiveness, efficiency and
relevance. A method can be said to be effective if only
during the execution there is a positive change toward
the expected goal, and a method can be said to be
efficient if the use of time, facilities, cost and energy
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can be implemented as economically as possible and
can achieve maximum results. In relation to that
matter, the writer used descriptive method. In this
case Arikunto (2016, p. 3) explains that "Descriptive
research is a study intended to investigate the
conditions, conditions or other things already
mentioned, whose results are presented in the form of
a research report". This study had a purpose, which
described the state of awareness of badminton
athletes towards a healthy lifestyle.
3 RESULTS AND DISCUSSION
Data obtained from the data retrieval data were raw
data, so the required data processing to know the raw
results. The data were processed and analysed
statistically, so it had a meaning that were concluded
to answer the problems studied.
The following, authors attach the tables of the
results of data processing obtained from the data
retrieval.
3.1 Processing and Analysis of Data
Description of self-awareness of badminton athletes
towards healthy lifestyle, which has become a sample
of his research is athlete Badminton SME UPI. Below
is a picture of self-awareness based on indicators, can
be seen in Table 1 as follows.
Table 1: The result data of badminton athletes’ awareness
towards healthy lifestyle.
No
Indicators
Actual
Score
Ideal
Score
%
1
Recognizing
Emotion
787
1200
66
%
2
Self-confession
838
1200
70
%
3
Self-esteem
650
1000
65
%
Average Score
2275
3400
67
%
Based on the Table 1 above, it can be concluded
that the overall score for badminton athletes’
awareness was 67%. Thus, it was categorized enough.
Recognizing emotion indicator had 787 as the actual
score, whereas its ideal score is 1200. It caused this
indicator to only achieve 66%. Next, self-esteem
indicator score was 838 out of its ideal score, 1200
and achieved 70%. Self-esteem, the last indicator, got
650 out of 1000. It only achieved 65%. Of all the
entire awareness indicator, self-esteem indicator had
the highest score.
Each indicator had sub-indicator to which the
writer had categorized based on the obtained score.
The percentage result of the recognizing emotion
sub-indicator is described in Table 2 as follows:
Table 2: The percentage results of sub-indicator of
recognizing emotion.
No
Sub-indicators
Actual
Score
Ideal
Score
%
1
Finding out the emotion
of meaning they feel dan
why it happens
206
300
69%
2
Realizing the linkages
between their feeling and
their thought
160
200
80%
3
Finding out how their
feeling affects the
performance
203
300
68%
4
Having an awareness as
the guidelines of their
values and targets
218
400
55%
Based on the results in the table above, sub-
indicator of “knowing emotion of meaning they feel
and why it happens” had the actual score of 206 and
ideal score of 300, thus it obtained the percentage of
69%. Then, sub-indicator of “realizing the linkages
between their feeling and their thought” had the
actual score of 160 and ideal score of 200 that
obtained the percentage of 80%. Sub-indicator of
“knowing how their feeling affects the performance”
had the actual score of 203 and ideal score of 300 that
obtained the percentage of 68%. The last sub-
indicator, “having an awareness as the guidelines of
their values and targets”, had the actual score of 218
and ideal score of 400 that obtained the percentage of
55%. Below is the percentage of sub-indicator of self-
confession described in Table 3.
Table 3: The percentage results of sub-indicator of self-
confession.
No
Sub-indicators
Actual
Score
Ideal
Score
%
1
Taking time to think,
reflecting from
experience, exposing
self to a good feedback,
new perspective, and
having desire in
developing self
424
700
71%
2
Being aware of their
strengths and
weaknesses
414
600
69%
Based on the results in the table above, 424 and
700 were the actual score and ideal score of “taking
time to think, reflecting from experience, exposing
self to a good feedback, new perspective, and having
courage in developing self” sub-indicator that
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obtained the percentage of 71%. For sub-indicator of
“Being aware of their strengths and weaknesses”, the
actual score and ideal score were 414 and 600
respectively and it obtained the percentage of 69%.
The percentage of sub-indicator of self-esteem is
described in Table 4.
Table 4: The percentage results of sub-indicator of self-
esteem.
No
Sub-indicators
Actual
Score
Ideal
Score
%
1
Having the courage
to perform with
confidence and
showing their
existance
143
200
72%
2
Having the courage
to express the
unpopular view and
being ready to
sacrifice for the
truth
219
300
73%
3
Being assertive,
being able to make
a good decision in
spite of in uncertain
condition
324
500
65%
Based on the results in the table above, sub-
indicator of “having the courage to perform with
confidence and showing their existance” had the
actual score of 143 and ideal score of 200 which
obtained the percentage of 72%. Then, 219 and 300
were both the actual score and ideal score of “having
the courage to express the unpopular view and being
ready to sacrifice for the truth” sub-indicator with the
percentage of 73%. The last sub-indicator, “being
assertive, being able to make a good decision in spite
of in uncertain condition”, had the actual score of 324
and ideal score of 500 that obtained the percentage of
65%. Based on the obtained percentage of each
described indicator above, the researcher re-
explained it in figure 1.
Figure 1:The percentage of badminton athletes’ self-
awareness towards a healthy lifestyle.
According to Irianto (2016, p.139), to be
recognized as having a healthy lifestyle is “ The
degree of one’s health and fitness is influenced by
three main factors, namely eating habit, rest,
exercise.” The percentage of eating habit and rest
habit is described in Table 5.
Table 5: The percentage results of athletes’ self-awareness
towards healthy eating habit and rest habit.
No
Healthy Lifestyle
Actual Score
Ideal
Score
%
1
Healthy Eating
Habit
1354
2000
68
%
2
Rest Habit
921
1400
66
%
Total Score
2275
3400
67
%
4 CONCLUSIONS
Regarding to the research results, calculation, as well
as the data analysis, thus researcher could draw
conclusion to the athletes’ awareness towards healthy
lifestyle. Healthy lifestyle was divided into two which
were healthy eating habit and rest habit. Those
conclusions are as follows:
 The description about badminton athletes’
awareness towards healthy eating habit which
had enough criteria with the percentage of 68%.
 The description about badminton athletes’
awareness towards rest habit which had enough
criteria with the percentage of 66%.
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