The Difference Of Effect That Physical Activity And Entertainment Which Can Hold The Basic Cognitive Functioning Have In Beijing Urban Middle And

The increase of the old’ s proportion pressures the societY.It’ s important to deal with the problem of the old properly and make them healthy and happy in the old age.As the age increasing,cognitive capacity will decline step by step.This fact influences the quality of the old’ s life.There are evidences indicating that physical activity and entertainment can delay the declining speed of cognitive capacity to some degree.The aim of this paper is to find the difference between physical activity and entertainment which can hold the basic cognitive capacity of the middle and old aged people,to find the genuine value of physical activity and entertainment,to spread the physical activity and entertainment to the middle and old aged people scientifically.Three preliminary experiments(n=19) confirmed the questionnaire and tests for formal exam.Then this study test 166 Beijing urban middle and old aged people(96 males,70 females,mean=60.57,sd=9.154) who had certain ability of activity by basic cognitive capacity test and questionnaire one-to-one on the computer,and collected the subjects’ results of digit discrimination,compare of Chinese characters, efficiency of mental arithmetic,recognition of dual words,basic information of subjects and which activity they took part in.The subjects were divided into 4 groups:physical activity,entertainment, entertainment and physical activity and control.Using hierarchical multiple regression,it was to choose the variable which hadasignificant effect on cognitive performance.Using analysis of multivariate analysis of covariance and multifactor analysis of variance,it compared the influence of entertainment with physical activity on cognitive capacity of the middle and old aged people and examined the main effect of group.Research indicates participation in entertainment and physical activity don’t have significant relations with well cognitive capacity of the middle and old aged people;entertainment maybe associate with better memory,physical activity and entertainment have no difference in the tests involved reactive speed.The middle and old aged people should participate in proper aerobics and entertainment.It should strengthen the study of psychological mechanism to explain the benefit of entertainment and physical activity to cognitive capacity.