Investigation And Analyses On The Status Of The Handicapped Participating In The National Fitness Movement

According to the World Health Organization's statistical data, the whole world has 500 million handicapped people, accounting for about 10% population, and 80% populations are in developing countries. Now our country has handicapped people 60 million, with growing at speed by every year 700—800 thousand . If together with his relationships, involving to about 100 million Chinese citizens. As human society's product, the handicapped are also the public wealth inventors, but due to their own physiological deficiency, this community is at the disadvantageous position for a long time in the social emulation;possess the impoverished economic in the social resource quota;has the low level living standard in the social life quality appraisal;has the fragile bearing capacity in the social emulation and the society association, is the typical Vulnerable Groups.In March 2002, Premier Zhu Rong-ji has used "Vulnerable Groups" in "Government Work Report" at first time, and proposed to safeguard "Vulnerable Groups" was the keystone at that year, simultaneously emphasized on caring Vulnerable Groups, not only on the matter's help, but also in the spirit's. The Sports is the common outstanding cultural heritage in entire humanity, it has the positive role to each person's life, while it promotes humanity physical quality comprehensively , but also promotes his perfect development in his spiritual domain. This article as the sub- topic research in the country society fund project: Analyses on The Current Situation of The National Fitness Project for Vulnerable Groups and Research on Countermeasures That Vulnerable Groups participate in National Fitness Project manifests not only National Fitness Project Program is for all people broadly and importantly, but also is full feedback for Project social function helping Vulnerable Groups to get rid of vulnerability, and also is embodiment for our party and the government concerning and helping highly to Vulnerable Groups.This article basing on the massive social investigations, taking the sports as the carrier, using the related theory and method of the sociology, the psychology, the organization behavior and so on, using some research approaches, such as documents and materials, questionnaire, statisical comparison and so on. Through the different latitude for example demography variable such as handicapped person's age, sex, education, income, disabled type and the city, analysised and discussed the cognition for the handicapped people Participating in The National Fitness;the motive for the handicapped participating in The National Fitness Movement;The handicapped sports consumptionlevel;The behavior and the content for the disabled person participating in The National Fitness Movement as well as the organization and investment model for developing the handicapped to participate in The National Fitness and drew the conclusion as follows:1. At present the majority handicapped people have the stronger sports fitness consciousness and certain sports consumption consciousness, but the sports fitness behavior and the sports consumption ability are low.2. The majority handicapped people have motive for participating in The National Fitness Movement, but the motive for participating in The National Fitness is not unable to transform into the behavior now.3. The targets for handicapped people participating in The National Fitness are strengthening body, expeling sickness and healing, recreation and entertainment, alleviating pressure, supporting oneself and the social contact and so on, these informed that the majority handicapped people have already realized the sports multi-purpose.4. The spors consumption level for the handicapped participating in The National Fitness is very lower, and quite part of the handicapped are not to participate in the sports consumption. In handicapped people participating in sports consumption, material object consumption proportion is higher, and the non- material object consumption is less, the consumption pattern is unreasonable.5.The degree of the handicapped participating in the sports fitness is not high, and there are quite part of the handicapped never to participate in the sports. In this investigation the handicapped for conforming to sports population standard are only 14.6% account for the whole investigation, and it is lower than 1996 national sports population 33.9% proportions.6.On the handicapped selecting the sports place, the first choice is community location or the park nearby the inhabited area, second is in the home and the free stadium hall. And this is influenced by handicapped people's age, education and handicapped type.7.0n the handicapped selecting the sports content, walking, running slowly and walking quickly are deeply liked by various types handicapped people, and diverse with the different disabled type.8. On factors for the handicapped to participate in The National Fitness Movement, the statistical result shows that is influenced by the handicapped personal economic and physiological factor mainly, simultaneously lacks of social factors such as location equipment and sports fitness instruction are also the primary factor that affects the handicapped people to participate in The National Fitness Movement.9. On the organizaton form and the investment model for developing handicappedpeople to participate in The National Fitness Movement, the most handicapped think that this should be organised by the primary handicapped league, community or street and so on, and the funds should be invested by the goverment, the enterprise, the society and individual together, but cannot adopt completely voluntary and personal investment form to carry out the The National Fitness Movement for the handicapped.Finally, The article proposes the solving countermeasure for developing our country handicapped people to participate in The National Fitness Movement from the reality.