Relationships among Communting Way, Sedentary Lifestyle, and Physical Activity of Primary School Children in the Urban and Rural Area

• Main Authors: Yu-Shan Huang, 黃于珊
• Other Authors: Chin-Hsing Hsu
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2013
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/01644353764738763235

碩士 === 國立屏東科技大學 === 休閒運動保健系所 === 101 === The aim of this study was to find out the current situation of school commuting, the sedentary lifestyle, and physical activities of primary school children in the urban and rural area, and how these factors interacted with each other. Subjects were selected according to the population density in Pingtung County, as an example of the remote areas, and XinXing district of Kaohsiung City, as urban area and targeted at fifth and six grades schoolchildren. This study adopted questionnaire as the research method and collected 565 valid samples in total. Statistic methods included frequency distribution, descriptive statistics, Chi-square test, independent sample t-test, Pearson’s product-moment correlation coefficient and Spearman rank order correlation coefficient were applied on the collected information for analysis and discussions. The study concluded that (a) The differences of school commuting, sedentary lifestyle, and physical activities between rural and urban schoolchildren are significant; (B) Difference of school commuting between both gender was not significant, yet those of sedentary lifestyle, and physical activities were significant; (C) All three factors are significantly correlated. It is recommended that schoolchildren commute by walk or bicycle to school, which cultivates their habits to exercise regularly. In addition, including more dynamic physical exercises in the activities can also increase physical activities of primary school children.