A study on the Factors Determining sport Participation of University Students

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to examine the factors determining sport participation (participation in sport clubs and frequency of sport practice) of university students.
The data were collected from 1, 575 students of seven universities in Kansai District by questionnaire method in 1982 and analyzed by SPSS programme package.
Participation in sport clubs and frequency of sport practice were analyzed in relation to nine factors of the subject, university, time, home, playmate, money, facilities, information and past time.
The main results were surmmarized as follows:
1. The participaters in sport clubs were fourty four percent of all subjects and the percentage of male was higher than female.
2. More than one half of all subjects practiced sport activities two or three days per week outside of the physical education classes and the frequency of sport practice of male was also higher than female.
3. In the percentage of participation in sport clubs and sport practice the national university students were found higher than the private university students.
4. Whether participating in sport clubs or not were the main factor to determine the frequency of sport practice.
5. The main factors determining sport participation of university students were the subjective factors (favorite attitude to sports, sport consciousness, physical fitness and skills etc.) and the conditions of unversity (national or private, what kinds of faculty) not the social and economical conditions.