The Beijing Urban Family Sports Present Situation Investigation And Study

As the local economy develops, Beijing witnessed the rise of sports as a healthy lifestyle toimprove urban residents’ life standards. By engaging each other in a sport activity, localfamilies achieved mental and physical health improvement, which in turn promotes familyharmony and social stability.The present study classified sample households into six categories (young-couple families,nuclear families, pre-school child families, middle-school child families, childless familiesand others), and conducted analysis based on literature review, questionnaire survey,interview and statistical processing, which leads to the following conclusions:1. Among the six family types, most families acknowledge the function of sporting infamily harmony and so choose to spend time on family exercises. Apart from childlessfamilies, the frequency of family exercises is uncertain.2. Among the sample families,82.4%parents choose to exercise with their kids andsupervise the kids in doing sports homework. However, winter/summer vacationhomework are often left unfinished due to difficulties to quantify and lack of supervisorymechanism.3. Community as one of the typical organizers of sports events plays a positive role infamily sports development, but the events they organize are usually mingled with othercommunal activities and seldom exist as an independent sports meeting. Family sportsactivities are often played in winter/summer vacations and in pleasant weather with a lowfrequency. In addition, some preschool family nanny act as the role of family members inthe family sports activities.4. Among the sample families, over70%recognize the importance of family sports. Therest of them deny the necessity of family sports, indicating lack of awareness on itsfunctions. Meanwhile, needs on sports facilities and family coaches vary significantly,meaning both of them not critical constraints on family sports activities.5. Childless families constitute the majority of family sports participants. Communitysports events usually fail to involve middle-school children families, young-couplefamilies and other families for schedule or scale reasons. Samples families registercomparatively high expectations on coaching and body analysis services.6. As a family as the unit to carry out the family sports there are many uncertain factors,from internal factors for family member’s health consciousness, physical values, interests,time does not agree, disagree, economic income, from the external factors for the nationalsports policies, state spending on sports, sports resources, the service level and otherfactors have become the influence factors of the family to carry out sports activities.