Analysis In Motivation For Some Of Shanghai Males Involving Yoga Exercise

With the media publicity and rendering, when Yoga was introduced to China atthe beginning, it seems to be the monopoly of women and few men practiced. But atpresent, people’s acceptable ability is faster in Shanghai. With media’s (includinginternet, magazines, television) reports of yoga’s benefits for men and the experts andscholars’ theoretical and practical verifying of yoga’s advantages for men’s health,more and more men practicing yoga has become the inevitable trend in the future. So,to study on the phenomenon is necessary.In order to study a part of men’s motivation to participate in yoga exercise,influenced factors, the basic situation, characteristics, motivation status andinfluenced factors, the paper investigated on twenty yoga hall of Shanghai and191men involved in yoga exercise. The results are as bellows:1. Basic situation of some men participating in yoga exercise in Shanghai city:a. The age performance of yoga exercise mainly focuses on the man30~60yearsold.b. The cultural performance of yoga exercise mainly focuses on the graduated(including junior college) and under graduated men;c. The income performance of yoga exercise mainly focuses on the men with5000yuan.2Characteristics of some men participating in the yoga exercise in Shanghai.a. The concentrated expression of frequency for the men participated in yoga isas follows:1to2times per week;b. The concentrated expression of practice time for the men participated in yogais as follows:1-2hours a day;c. The concentrated expression of ongoing life for the men participated in yoga is1-2years;d. The concentrated expression ofintensity for the men participated in yoga ismoderate sweating.3. The overall Motivation of some men participating in yoga exercise inShanghai.The average score for some men participating in yoga exercise in Shanghaiare3.18. Each dimension scores in descending order are: identity (3.83)> seekingstimulate>knowledge>Achievement>projection>nomotivation>externaladjustment(2.50). Overall, the motivation for the Shanghai men to participate in yoga exercise onthe overall level is higher than the mid-level, internal motivation is still relativelystrong.Correlations between each dimension motivation and exercise behavior forShanghai men to participate in yoga exercise.4. The motivation of men to participate in yoga exercise and exercise behaviorwas significantly associated. In general, the internal motivation and yoga exercisebehavior (exercise frequency, exercise time, exercise ongoing life, exercise intensity)is positively correlated. The identification in external dimension of motivation andexercise behavior are positively correlated; the external regulation and projection in external motivation was negatively correlated with exercise behavior.5. The motivation for Shanghai men to participate in yoga exercise has age,education level and income disparities: Motivation for women to participate in yogaexercise are commonly stronger than men, especially in external adjustmentdimension, it is significantly (P <0.05); On the respect of age, with the increase ofage, the stronger of motivation for Shanghai men to participate in yoga, the weakerfor non-motivation; on the respect of education, with the rising of cultural level, Theexternal motivation of Shanghai men’s participation in yoga becomes weaker, theinternal motivation gradually becomes stronger, no motivation showed a gradualweakening trend; on the respect of income, the external adjustment motivation forShanghai men’s participating in yoga becomes gradually weaker and weaker.Identification motivation becomes stronger. Absence of motivation for Shanghaimen’s participate in yoga gradually weakened with the increase of monthly income.6. Factors affecting the motivation of Shanghai Men to participating in yoga arefamily factors, work environment factors, media factors, yoga teachers andcompanions.7. The features of motivation for Shanghai men to participate in yoga is as below:the changes of external motivation into internal motivation, non-unitary andnon-competitive nature.