The Study of Leisure Participation on Weekends of Obese Students in Junior High Schools in Taichung

• Main Author: 陳碧文
• Other Authors: 張少熙
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2009
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/ua4e46

碩士 === 國立臺灣師範大學 === 體育學系在職進修碩士班 === 97 === Abstract The purpose of this study was aimed to investigate the participation in leisure activities on weekends by overweight junior high students whose BMI≧21.6 for girls and BMI≧21.5 for boys lived in Taichung. There were 400 participants in this study and they filled in questionnaires to state their participation in leisure activities and motivation of participation in leisure activities in weekend among last six months. The data were collected by accidental sampling. The data analysis was presented by descriptive statistics, T-test, one-way ANOVA, and Pearson correlation. The results were as follows: 1. The facts of the obese students in junior high: First, the male were more than the female and the level of their parents’ education was mainly vocational high school. Second, the time of their leisure activities was between 2 and 4 hours chiefly. Third, the expense of their leisure activities was below three hundred dollars. 2. Those obese students were much the same in skill motivation of the participation in leisure activities though they had different “sexes”, different “parents’ education”, different “time” and different “expense”. It showed that the obese students in Taichung had some differences in the motivation of participation of leisure activities because of their different motivations. 3. Different gender students had noticeable differences in the participation in leisure activities. The male students were much more than female students in the knowledge of leisure activities; the female students were more than male students in relaxation and sports of the participation in leisure activities. It showed that the obese students in Taichung had different kinds of participation of leisure activities because of gender. 4. Four dimensions of motivations and six types of activities were almost significantly correlated. Among them, “dimension of cognition” and “outdoor activity” were most significantly correlated.