The Research Of Elderly Sports Need And Sports Behaviors

Along with the progress and development of our country's society and economy the population aging speed also gradually speeds up. The population of the elder is growing fast. In 1999, our country has entered the old-age society and become one of the developing countries which enter the old-age society. According to the information released by state council in February 2011, by 2015 the population of aging people who are more than 60 years old will reach 216 million, accounting for about 16.7% of the whole population in China and it grows by an average of more than eight million per year and the number of annual average growth of elderly population is larger than the number of new population in our country. The ageing population problem has brought serious challenges to China's economic, social, political, and cultural construction and development. In February 2011, the "national fitness plan(2011-2015)" issued by the state council clearly put forward that we should pay attention to the elderly in sports which indicates that the development of the elderly sports has risen to the height of the national level and gets more and more attention. The construction and development of elderly sports is beneficial to ease the pressure which caused by population aging to the economic, political, social and cultural development of our country and it is one of the important ways to solve the problems of elderly people. Constructing and developing the elderly sports is beneficial to improve the life quality of the elder and to promote the old people's physical and mental health; through physical exercise the elders' physique is enhanced, the incidence of disease is effectively reduced, the spending in medical care of the state and society is reduced, the economic burden of the society is reduced and the construction and development of our society and economy is beneficial from it.This paper research on the elderly sports need and sports behavior theory, research and Analysis on current situation of Shangqiu city elderly sports need and sports behavior. Based on the research of basic types of elderly sports need, from age, gender, education, occupation and other factors on the different characteristics of elderly sports need and sports behavior the relationship of the elderly, also need sports and sports behavior are discussed. Through the above Shangqiu city elderly sports need and sports behavior research, provide the beneficial supplement for the elderly sports research, in order to provide some guidance on the development of Shangqiu and even the national sports for the aged. and draws the following conclusions:1.Main types of elderly sports needMain types of elderly sports need include:the basic type,physical activity;other types include: entertainment needs?fitness needs?social needs?disease prevention and control needs?spiritual and cultural needs?group psychology needs?habitual needs.2.The characteristics of elderly sports needsAge:Elderly people of different ages has different degrees of differences on the intensity of the spiritual and habitual needs;Gender:The intensity of habitual needs in different gender has a significant difference;Education background : The intensity of spiritual and habitual needs for different education background has a significant difference;Professional:The intensity of habitual needs for different professional has a significant difference.3.The characteristics of the elderly sports behaviorAge:The frequency of different ages per week has a significant difference;Gender:The frequency, time and intensity of different gender per week have significant differences;Education:The frequency, time and intensity per week of different education have significant differences;Professional:The frequency, time and intensity per week of different professional have significant differences.4. The relationship between Elderly sports need and behaviorThe elderly sports need the strength grade and weekly physical exercise frequency and each exercise between long exist significant positive correlation. Reflect the sport for the aged need strength and sports behavior is consistent and that the needs of the elderly sports strength stronger, the sports behavior is positive.