The Qualitative Research Of Marathon Participants' Motivation And Constraint

The marathon become the most rapidly developing leisure sports because of its wide access,public participation and profound social influence characteristics.The marathon has become the focus of attention,also become the focus of many domestic scholars.But most of the domestic research on the marathon were about urban development and the impact of urban brands,have in-depth understanding of the psychological marathon,it is little research on the motivations and the constraints involved.In addition,the related theory about leisure is not very perfect,lack of research and application of quantitative,face in the marathon growth spurt,and the current theory research The lack of serious lag in the development of the practice in the study of grounded theory and the international authority of the resistance(or constraints)theory(intrapersonal,interpersonal,structural)based on qualitative research methods in western countries is focusing on,the marathon participants for the survey and in-depth analysis of dynamic factors of Marathon participants and the resistance factors,and provide reference and guidance for the majority of the participants to better participate in leisure sports leisure sports,but also provide a reference for the relevant government departments and the introduction of the policy and constructive,and contribute to the better development of leisure sports and sports industry.This paper selects 16 marathon participants as the Interviewee,by researchers as a research tool,using the research method of grounded-theory,the original data were collected through in-depth interviews and field observation,the relevant data collected in the effect of Marathon participants dynamic factors and resistance factors and summarize the concepts and categories analysis of participating in the Marathon movement of qualitative research,Finally,summarizes the various factors affecting marathon participants motivation and constraint,we draw the following conclusions:First,motivations were divided into internal motivations and external motivations.Internal motivations include 6 factors: to keep fitness and health,bodybuilding,leisure,temper will,personality.External motivations include 3 factors,peer influence,social environment,media influence.Among them,family,time and money are the most important and influential factors in the course of the interview,which belong to the most critical and core influencing factors.Second,constraints were divided into intrapersonal constraints,interpersonal constraints,structural constraints and experience constraints.The intrapersonal constraints include injuries,age,lazy,interpersonal constraints include family structure,structural constraints include time,funds,alternative sports,success or not,experience constraints include the level of events and service of events,a total of 10 micro factors.Among them,family,time and money are the most important and most influential factors in the course of the interview,which belong to the most critical and core influencing factors.