The Motivation Research On Traditional Martial Arts Practitioners

Effectively improving the motivation of martial arts and participation of traditional martial arts practitioners,is an important direction to promote the development of traditional Chinese martial arts.Based on the related motivation theory of psychology,using the traditional martial arts competition in FuJian province as an opportunity,the article takes the motivation of traditional martial arts practitioners as a research object and are implemented through literature review,investigation (i.e. depth interviewing and questionnaires),comparative analysis as well as mathematical statistics. The main contents include:1.Based on the cognitive evaluation theory and the physical activity motivation measurement scale which has seven dimensions,combining with the characteristics of the research object and investigation object of this study,the This goal requires an operational definition of the motivation of traditional martial arts practitioners be made. This study has discovered through literature review, depth interviewing,unstructured questionnaire survey, preliminary testing and formal testing including using exploratory factor analysis and confirmatory factor analysis that the motivation of traditional martial arts practitioners scale includes the internal motivation and the external motivation.That is, the self-improvementFl,interpersonal F2, others’influence F3,inheritanceF4and self-gratification F5. It consists of a total of17projects of five dimensions.The confirmatory factor analysis of the full scale indicates the values of fit index for X2/df,RMSEA,CFI, GFI,NFI,IFI and TFI arel.596,0.058,0.877,0.900,0.737,0.883and0.846respectively/The Cronbach’s a of five dimensions is between0.565and0.792,and that of the full scale is0.803.So it has good reliability and validity.2.This study using the self-made scale surveys the contestants who has taken part in the2013world of MinNan Culture Festival International Traditional Wushu Tournament and analyzes their motivation characteristics. The results show that:(1)The phenomenon is obvious that sex ratio is unbalanced. The number of men is more than women,and the number of adulthood is the lowest,adolescence is the most and old period and childhood is moderate.(2)The order of the factors of motivation of traditional martial arts practitioners is that:self-improvementF1>interpersonalF2>others’influenceF3> inheritanceF4>self-gratification F5.And the internal motivation level is higher than the external motivation.(3) There is no remarkable difference among the practitioners in urban and rural areas and exercise frequency.But age,gender,occupation,education backgrounds,times and the practice ages do bring about significantly difference among these practitioners.