A Study On Middle School Students' Participation In Community Sports Activities In Beijing

After the spring of community sports in cities of China in the late 1980s, the situation of community sports has greatly improved because of the government's support and citizens'active participation. At present, the senior citizens are the major participators in community sports. Middle school students, as part of community members, taking part in community sports activities is also of great significance. Community sports are an important part of middle school students'sports life, and their participation directly influences the continuous development of the community sports. In order to promote the community sports and encourage more teenagers to join them, the author investigated middle school students'participation in community sports activities in Beijing urban area by the means of questionnaire survey and sample investigation, and also analyzes the factors which affect their participation. By this way, the author endeavored to learn the middle school students'expectation of community sports and hopefully to provide foundation for the policy making and future plans about teenagers'community sports administration.The thesis takes middle school students from four districts in Beijing as study objects: Dongcheng, Xuanwu, Chaoyang and Haidian. Questionnaire is devised to investigate and study the situation of middle school students'participation in community sports activities. The results show as followings: 1)Communities are the major places for middle school students to exercise apart from campus, the number of boy participators are more than girl ones, juniors are more than seniors. The number of participators decreases spirally as the pressure from learning load in higher class, while increases in university. 2)The time of their participation is mainly on weekends, festivals and holidays. Few students do exercises with plan. The main activities taken are badminton playing, basketball playing, walking and jogging, which are of diversities. Because of the different sex, different activities are chosen. The fields teenagers choose to exercise are community playgrounds and some squares which are free of charge. 3)Activities usually lack organizationa and professional direction. 4) The purposes of sports are to relax, entertain and exercise, in which to entertainment may be more than to relax for teenagers. Middle school students well understand the entertainment function of exercise, but ignorant of its social functions. 5)The factors which influence middle school students'participation in community sports activities include subjective ones, such as one's characters and hobbies, and objective ones, such as no time, no (good)places and no suitable partners. 6)Middle school students hold high expectation for the organization and facilities of community sports activities.Above all, the thesis puts forward several suggestions: 1)Communities should provide more spaces for teenagers to exercise and cut down the fees for them; The establishment of new teenager clubs should depend more on communities;2) Interesting and colorful activities should be organized for teenagers during vacations; 3)The teenagers should be encouraged to take part in community sports activities with wide propaganda; 4)New organization modes of sports activities should be developed with the help of departnent; The cooperation mode between sports associations and enterprises should be promoted in teenagers sports activities.