An Analysis Of The Present Situation And Factors Of University Students' Taking Physical Exercise After School In Henan Province

Students'physiques and health conditions not only directly affect the younger generation's growing up healthy and sound, but also the quality of China's training talented people. In order to strengthen most students'physiques and improve their health conditions, on December 20, 2006 Ministry of Education, State Physical Culture Administration, Central Committee of Chinese Communist Youth League promulgate jointly issued A Decision on Going in for Sunlight Athletic Sports Among Hundreds of Millions of Students in the Whole Country. On April 29, 2007, in Beijing Chaoyang Park, Comrade Li Changchun, the member of Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, declared to start up Sunlight Athletic Sports among Hundreds of Millions of Juvenile Students in the Whole Country, and fired a shot for Beijing youngsters'collective long-distance running. As a strong supplement to PE, extra-class PE an important role in building up and improving students'health. Therefore, the research on extra-class PE will have a strong realistic significance.By making a comprehensive use of different kinds of research methods, such as, the documentation method, the interview method, the questionnaire method and the method of mathematical statistics, this paper will choose four-year university students in Henan Province as the research objects, select eight representative universities as the investigation objects, and make a deeper analysis of the present situation and the factors of university students taking part in physical exercise after school in Henan Province. In this way, this paper will provide some theoretical reference, expecting this research will be helpful for strengthening students'physiques and improving their health conditions.Through investigating, the paper will reach a conclusion as follows:First, in Henan province 62.2 percent of university students learn their majors after school, 52.3 percent surf the internet, 49.5 percent read books, newspapers and magazines, and 32.4 percent take physical exercise. At present, university students'life after school is characteristic of variety with learning as the main form.Second, 65.8 percent of university students like to take physical exercise after school with spontaneously organized free activities as the main form.Third, the frequency of university students'joining physical exercise after school is low—only 21.2 percent of students take exercise three times a week. On the time of exercise, there is a big difference between males and females: 71.2 percent of male students can spare more than thirty minutes to take exercise, so can 27.1 percent of female students do. Moreover, students always focus on taking exercise in the afternoon and at night. On the intensity of exercise, there is still a great difference between males and females: 73 percent of male students reach the average or above average, while 29.3 percent of female students can do.Fourth, the level of university students'consumption on PE is low: 69.4 percent of them spent less than fifty yuan each term on PE. Furthermore, the structure of their consumption on PE is single: they only emphasize on material PE products but neglect immaterial ones.Fifth, university students mainly choose the stadiums on campus to take physical exercise after school. The contents of their taking exercise tend to be fashionable and various.Sixth, with the analysis of R-model Factors this paper will find out five main factors affecting university students'taking physical education after school in Henan Province, orderly, physical education culture on campus, life style in spare time, environment, sense of worth on PE, and policies and rules on PE.Last but not least, the paper will give some concrete and reasonable suggestions on the present situation and the factors of university students'taking physical education after school in Henan Province.