1979 年 24 巻 2 号 p. 117-125
The purpose of this study was to investigate how the quality of sports facilities in community influence upon their utilization, and then to identify the appropriate role of each facility from the view point of physical education service in community physical education. For this purpose, a questionnaire survey was carried out among the users in Area Services that were provided by one public gymnasium as the management body of physical education, and seven gymnasia at the elementary and secondary schools located in the same district which were opened to the public. The results of this study lead the conclusions as follows; 1) In order to attract more participants and to provide greater accessibility to their Area Service, the functional quality is more important than the size and design of the sports facilities in a community. 2) The Area Service of a school gymnasium opened to the public covers the radius of approximately two thousand meters. Therefore, the Club Service and Program Service, rather than Area Service, should be the main emphasis of a municipal gymnasium when its serving area overlap with that of such school facility.