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Studon The Factors And Intervention Measures Of Phsical Activity For German University Freshman

Posted on:2014-01-04Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:Y MaFull Text:PDF
GTID:2267330425957016Subject:Humanities and sociology
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Driven by the improvement of living standards and the dramatic change of transportation,more and more university students gradually or tend to develop a sedentary lifestyle. It directlyleads to the declining situation of university student physical constitution all over the world.Physical health of university students has become a social problem concerned by the wholesociety the world. Lacking of physical activity participation is one of the important reasons foruniversity students’ physical decline, therefore, increasing physical activity participation topromote university students’ physical health is worth considering. Domestically, as for the study offactors affecting the students participation in physical activity, so many experts always blame thissituation on the objective factors, such as sports system defects, poor education, lacking of ideas,sports equipment and venues sports serious shortage of teachers, sports content lack of interest.Then, domestic experts always pay more attention on the study of factor investigation with onregards on the intervention measures.From the above point of view, scientific theory is needed for the study on the subjectivefactors influencing the physical activity participation of university students. As for solving thisissue, this study attempts to use the most influential social psychology physical activity theory--the theory of planned behavior(TPB), with the opportunity of foreign exchange programme,author was trying to learn how to use TPB scale to prove the possibility of applying this theoryinto university students physical activity domain. In addition, the author tried his best to sum upthe effective intervention measures taken the Bayreuth University to enhancing the constitution ofuniversity students. University period is the key period for students physical function andpsychological quality improving. Their physical and mental health development are boundtogether with the higher education quality of various countries. In particular, Germany faces thetransition from high school to university, is also the first semester at the university stage, therelevant sports club participation fell sharply; secondly, as far as China is concerned, the relevantsurvey shows that although the decline in physical quality of primary and secondary schoolstudents in China has been contained, but the declining trend of university students physicalquality in our country is still serious. Therefore, this study focus attention on the first-semesteruniversity students of Bayreuth University, Germany.This research adopts questionnaire survey, mathematical statistics, expert interview andon-the-spot investigation methods. The TPB scale was attributed on the platform of University ofthe electronic learning system (E-learning). As for the statistic procedure, SPSS17.0software hasbeen adopted. This study figured out the following conclusions:(a) Within the TPB scale, subjective norm occupied an more important role compared withthe attitude and perceived behavioral control. Probed into the perceived behavioral control, theauthor finds that parents has exerted an great influence on the students physical activityparticipation.(b) The characteristics of intervention measures taken by the Bayreuth University is startingfrom the details, step by step, phase by phase, establishing school project committee as well as theproject implementation Committee, staged treatment on the participation of student physicalactivity. According to the theory of planned behavior, intervention measures for different stageshas been tailored.(c) Based on our national conditions, the researches related to the TPB theory should beconducted step by step; secondly. An idea should put forward, try from the "form a good habit ofphysical exercise" to "start a journey of physical activity", and finally realizes "the life-longphysical activity"; every sports branch must build up solid scientific research network with eachother with an united aim to promote the physical constitution of university students.
Keywords/Search Tags:Germany, first-semester students, physical activity, affecting factors, interventionmeasures
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