Qualitative Study On Square Dance Participation Experience Of Middle-aged And Elderly Women In Jinhua City

In recent years,square dance is not only active in the major rural areas and cities of China,but also going abroad and becoming popular all over the world.It has become a social phenomenon that Chinese people,especially middle-aged and elderly women,actively participate in,and has attracted academic attention.Different from the current top-down approach,this paper attempts to take participants as the main body and adopt bottom-up induction to explain how it is possible for middle-aged and elderly women to participate in square dancing from the perspectives of participation significance,experience and obstacles.In this paper,25 middle-aged and elderly women were selected from three square dance groups including people's square,xinshi street and lize garden in jinhua city.The researcher himself was used as the research tool,and the phenomenological research method was used to obtain the real description of participants' movement process through semi-structured interview and participative observation.In addition,the collected data were extracted to find out the significance,experience and structure and characteristics of obstacles for middle-aged and elderly women to participate in the square dance movement.The research concluded that:First,The participation significance of square dance for middle-aged and elderly women mainly includes three aspects: promoting social integration,constructing self-identity,collectivism and historical memory.Among them,the promotion of social integration is to rebuild social relations,acquire a sense of belonging,and get rid of loneliness;the construction of self-identity is respectively group identity,socialidentity,and self-identity;collectivism and historical memory are respectively the inheritance of identity and the regeneration of rituals.Second,The participation experience of middle-aged and elderly women in square dancing mainly includes sensory experience,physical and mental experience,space-time experience and interactive experience.Sensory experience is visual sensory experience and auditory sensory experience,physical and mental experience is body perception,physical enhancement,relaxation and getting rid of loneliness,space-time experience is time distortion experience and space reconstruction experience,and interactive experience is discourse interaction,Internet interaction and group interaction.Third,The barriers to the participation of middle-aged and elderly women in square dancing mainly include self-obstacles,interpersonal obstacles,structural obstacles and experience obstacles.Among them,self-handicaps are respectively physical condition,personal interest and self-efficacy,interpersonal handicaps are respectively family and peers,structural handicaps are respectively site,time,weather and volume,and experience handicaps are respectively leader dancer,body feeling and environment atmosphere.The most important meaning of square dance for middle-aged and old women is not to meet the physiological needs,but to meet the deeper psychological needs,for middle-aged and old women to relieve loneliness,release themselves and seek for spiritual comfort to provide an effective way.The sensory,physical,mental,spatiotemporal and interactive experiences in the process of participating in the square dance express their desire to relax themselves,pursue freedom and actively seek the construction of subjectivity in the square dance space,so as to realize the connection between individuals and society.In this sense,maybe this is the reason why middle-aged and old women like square dancing so much...