A Study On Physical Exercising Motivation Of Career Ladies In Shanghai And The Influence Factors

Physical exercise has always been an important topic which attracts sociologists' attention. With the pace of the deepening of the institutional reform, physical exercise, which never appeared before, come into our eyesight. The physical exercise in the community can be divided into two types, one is taken by the retired people, along with the development of the exercising equipment, there are more and more retired people take exercise around the community. Another is employers' physical exercise. With the development of the commercial fitness clubs in china, more and more people take the physical exercise in the club, e.g. career ladies' physical exercise in the dancing club. Now ,a lot of sociologists put emphases on the first type, yet very few works in the second field.At the beginning, the fitness club is for the man, but now the most member are women. This phenomenon has aroused heated discussion in our society. Especially in Shanghai , the career ladies take exercise earlier and better, research of them has both academic and realistic meaning. By research, I found that most of them take the exercise not for the reasons of the club's address environment and service. But have their own motivation. The exercise motivation of the career ladies in Shanghai is becoming maturer and maturer. This process provides us a good point to understand the development of the women's physical exercise.The physical exercise motivation is a kind of course or feature of the inner psychology. The motivation directly influenced the item, the maintain, the regulate and the result of the exercise. With the pace of the deepening of the institutional reform, there will be more and more career ladies taking psychical exercise. The research of the motivation of career ladies who taking exercise in Shanghai, will provide a lot of experience to the ladies outside of Shanghai.The first chapter deals with the phenomenon, its social background, the rise of the question, the meanings of this research and also the existed relevant research work. The second chapter deals with the major motivations of physical exercise of career ladies in Shanghai. The different motivations of different phases, The influences of every motivation. How did it influent the choice of the item. It analyses the influences from the education, the living environment and so on. The third chapter mainly discusses the characteristics of the exercise motivation of the career ladies in Shanghai., and the influence of the gender culture. The last chapter has two parts. One is to make conclusions on the physical exercise motivation of the career ladies in Shanghai. Another part is to give some advices to inspire more and more women who are living in or out of Shanghai to take physical exercise.