Study On The Relation Of Sports Activities And The Happiness Of The Elderly In Northern City

Since2000, China has entered the aging society, the aging population increasing."Research report predicts the development trend of aging population China"(2006) points out, twenty-first Century Chinese aging irreversible will become a serious problem facing in the development of social economy."Not rich special conditions to the old", the aging population of elderly well-being will directly affect their life happiness and life satisfaction. The effects of different degree of happiness index of population ageing on old people’s perception, cognition and social interaction, and also with the quality of life of the elderly, mental health, survival is closely related to the state. As China’s most populous province of Jiangsu, studies show, Jiangsu province takes the lead in an aging and the proportion of the elderly population is greater than the proportion of the aging people. However, as the economic development of Jiangsu in Northern Jiangsu area of low proportion of aging population, North Jiangsu area in Jiangsu province is particularly apparent.Therefore, part of the city in Northern Jiangsu area representative in the elderly as the research object, using the method of questionnaire investigation and interview, the self-made "Questionnaire" elder well-being scale, the basic situation, respondents state of mind, sports activities and so on as the breakthrough point, using mathematical statistical methods of correlation data, analysis and discuss the relevance of happiness of elderly people and sports activities, in order to provide relative parameters for the aging population of happiness research, also further confirmed to participate in sports activities has positive significance for ecological value and appropriate to improve the well-being of elderly population.The conclusions of this study are as follows:A, effects of different demographic variables on the elder well-being:1, Which shows that the gender dimension:the elderly male happiness than female elderly have comparative advantage, but the difference is not obvious;2,There are differences of age dimensions:under the age of80years old in the physical and mental status scores compared with age in the score and mental health under the age of69low;3, Income level dimensions significantly:more than1500yuan monthly income in the old way of life scores than the monthly income of less than500yuan in the elderly;4, Marital status:married elderly dimensions of well-being is higher than the loss of a spouse’s elder well-being, wherein, single male elderly life is better than single women aged;5, Physical activity dimension:participate in the activities of the elderly happier than do not participate in the activities of the elderly.B, sports activities and the northern city elder well-being:1, Sports time dimension:the elderly aged over60minutes in the mental state of satisfaction and exercise time in under20minutes;2, Sports frequency dimensions:4times a week or more elderly happiness to participate in sports activities are higher than those of less than1times per week sports activities of the elderly well-being;3, Duration:the duration of physical activity in the dimension above6months old people are happier than those with less than2months or less duration of sports activities of the elder well-being.