The Research of Leisure Sport Participation and Constraints amog Junior High School Students in Tainan

• Main Authors: Lu,Chun-Pang, 盧俊邦
• Other Authors: Lin, Chen-Kun
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2012
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/51344809560010958124

碩士 === 台灣首府大學 === 教育研究所 === 100 === Abstract The purpose of this study is to investigate junior high school students in Tainan City, understanding their participation in leisure exercise, types of leisure exercise they performed and obstacles to their accesses to leisure exercise. The study carried out questionnaire survey on junior high school students in Tainan City and adopted self-edited “Index of Participation in and Obstacle to Leisure Exercise of Junior High School Students in Tainan City” as a research tool; contents covered by the index include “a personal profile, current participation in leisure exercise, types of leisure exercise and obstacles to accesses to leisure exercise”. The study then processed data collected by the index by SPSS Statistics Software for Windows, version17.0; descriptive statistics was used, through percentage and frequencies, to understand students’ participation in leisure exercise. Principal-Components Analysis was introduced to investigate factors that lead students to participate or withdraw from leisure exercise. Chi Square (χ2) test was adopted to check the different functions that sex, grades and socioeconomic status play in hindering students’ participation in leisure exercise. T-test was carried out to test the variation in sex and region groups that prohibit a student from doing leisure exercise. One-Way ANOVA was used to compare variance in groups with different grade and socioeconomic status about their participation of leisure exercise. If the value showed significant variation with magnitude , then Scheffé's method is introduced to do post-hoc analysis on variation in socioeconomic status. After discussions and analysis, the result is drawn as following: The duration of leisure exercise that Junior High School Students in Tainan City performed is mainly “from 31 to 60 minutes” per time and the intensity of leisure exercise of the same group is usually “light”, which is slightly insufficient. As for the types of leisure exercise that junior high school students in Tainan City did, “ball games” rank first in the frequency list of leisure exercise, then “outdoor sports”, “water sports”, “folk sports”, “dancing”, “physical exercise”, “combat sports” and “air sports” follow in a sequence. The top ten types of leisure sports summarized by the study are “basketball”, “biking”, “badminton”, “walking”, “jogging”, “volleyball”, “baseball”, “swimming”, “skipping” and “table tennis”. The top five factors that hinder junior high school students in Tainan City from participating leisure exercise are in the following order: “not in good health”, “insufficient facilities”, “lack of companions”, “poor skills” and “lack of related information”. Keywords: leisure exercise, participation in leisure exercise, obstacles to leisure exercise