1983 Volume 28 Issue 1 Pages 55-64
The aim of study is to describe the situations in the fulfillment on needs of users in community sports from various points of view, to define the caharacteristics of the situations, and to gain basic data of managements of athletic facilities.In the course of this study, we made a research on users of athletic facilities in Kashima-machi and Aso-machi, Ibaraki-ken. The following can be pointed out as the results of our researches: 1) Individual motives of athletes were satisfied by fulfilling their needs for community sports. 2) Some persons satisfied their which they had after taking part in community sports, though they had not had any motives before. 3) Four factors were specified by means of factorization analysis, and the features of these factors were described when differences in age, kinds of sports , and athletic facilities were taken into consideration.