Research On The Influencing Factors Of Youth Sports Participation In Jiangsu Province Based On Social Ecological Model

Teenagers are the future of a country and the hope of a nation.The physical health of teenagers is the material guarantee of life and plays a crucial role in their growth path.Regular sports participation can effectively improve the physical health of adolescents,while also helping to improve mental health and promote emotional regulation,thereby helping adolescents thrive and achieving the educational goal of comprehensive development.In order to promote youth sports participation and better understand the reasons that affect youth sports participation,it is urgent to study the influencing factors of youth sports participation.This study uses a social ecological model to analyze the influencing factors of adolescent sports participation from five levels: individual,family,school,community,and policy,and seeks interactive and multiple influencing paths.By summarizing the literature,this thesis identified five levels of 16 influencing factors affecting youth sports participation: the individual level includes self-efficacy,sports values;At the family level,it includes parents’ sports cognition,parents’ sports support.At the community level,it includes weather factors,community sports atmosphere,and community sports facilities;The policy level includes local policies,national policies,and epidemic policies.This study focuses on middle and high school students in Jiangsu Province.Compile a questionnaire on the influencing factors of youth sports participation in Jiangsu Province and use the PAQ-A questionnaire to investigate the current situation of youth sports participation in Jiangsu Province.In the three regions of Jiangsu Province,including southern Jiangsu(Suzhou,Nanjing),northern Jiangsu(Xuzhou,Suqian),and central Jiangsu(Yangzhou,Nantong),stratified cluster sampling method was used to select 972 questionnaires from 18 classes from grade one to grade three.A total of 925 questionnaires were collected from the three regions,with a recovery rate of 95.16%.After excluding 102 invalid questionnaires,823 valid questionnaires were selected.Two rounds of reliability and validity tests were conducted using tools such as SPSS23.0,AMOS24.0,SUSSAU and Excel2010 to verify the rationality of the selfmade questionnaire.The structural equation model was used to verify the influence of five levels on youth sports participation and the mesomeric effect.The following conclusions were drawn:1.The overall situation of youth sports participation in Jiangsu Province is at a moderate level,with male students having a higher level of sports participation than female students,and middle school students having a higher level of sports participation than high school students.The level of youth sports participation has the characteristic of decreasing with grade and decreasing with age.2.The self-efficacy of individual factors and sports values can become the influencing factors of observing youth sports participation and have a direct positive impact on it.3.Family factors such as parental sports cognition,parental sports support,and the influence of other members can become influencing factors for observing adolescent sports participation and have a direct positive impact on it.Family factors can also have an indirect impact on adolescent sports participation through individual factors.4.Peer support,teacher support,campus atmosphere,campus facilities,and academic pressure of school factors can become influencing factors for observing adolescent sports participation.Academic pressure has a negative impact on it,while the other four have a direct positive impact on it.School factors can also have an indirect impact on adolescent sports participation through individual factors.5.The weather factors,community sports atmosphere,and community sports facilities of community factors can become influencing factors for observing youth sports participation and have a direct positive impact on them.Community factors can also have an indirect impact on adolescent sports participation through individual factors.6.Local policies,national policies,and epidemic policies can become influencing factors for observing youth sports participation.Epidemic policies have a negative impact on it,while the other two have a direct positive impact on it.Policy factors can also have an indirect impact on youth sports participation through individual and school factors.7.Research has demonstrated the important supporting role of social ecological models in studying influencing factors.The social ecological model provides a good theoretical framework for the study of influencing factors.It has been proven that adolescent sports participation is not only directly influenced by one or two factors but is jointly influenced by the interaction of multiple factors.