Original research paper
Factors that lead working kendo practitioners to withdraw from kendo practice in the medium to long term
2023 Volume 55 Issue 2 Pages 55-65
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2023 Volume 55 Issue 2 Pages 55-65
The purpose of this study is to clarify the factors that cause working kendo practitioners to withdraw from kendo practice in the medium to long term.
In this study, we conducted an interview survey of 23 kendo practitioners (11 male, 12 female) who withdrew from kendo practice for more than 3 years after entering the workforce. The survey asked about the reasons for their withdrawal from continuous kendo practice, and elicited a detailed background of their more than 3-year withdrawal from it.
For the method of analysis, interview information was collected as text data. Through text mining, a correspondence analysis was conducted to analyze the extracted words and the relationship between the extracted words and external variables. Next, using the same text data, the withdrawal factors were organized by element and category using the KJ method.
The following results were obtained:
1) Eighteen items were extracted as withdrawal factors, which were then divided into five categories: “emergence of priorities”, “decline in motivation”, “challenges in the kendo environment”, “family circumstances”, and “physical and mental anxieties”.
2) The results suggest that for men, withdrawal is prolonged when “the emergence of priorities” and “decline in motivation” are combined, and for women, “family circumstances” and “challenges in the kendo environment” or “physical and mental anxieties” are prolonged if combined.
3) It seems that “decline in motivation” and “challenges in the kendo environment” were expressed as factors that hindered the resumption of kendo, caused by its unique background.
