Analysis of Risk Perception to Physical Activities in Elementary School for College Students by Three-mode Factor Analysis

Abstract

There are many accidents in school every year. However, few studies examined the risk perception toward school activities. Present study investigated how college students perceive risks in school by means of questionnaire survey in psychometric paradigm. Respondents (n＝154) are asked two sets of items, one was to estimate how many fracture accidents are there in elementary school by physical activity per year, another was to evaluate the properties toward them. Analysis was conducted by TUCKER3 (Tucker, 1966). Results showed mainly three findings. (1) Three factors were extracted in scales (dreariness, controllability and educational value) and activities (extraordinary, contact and non-contact activity). (2) Core array showed four tendencies of risk perception. (3) Set gymnastics was considered as the cognitively biased activity in that educational value and dreariness has interaction effect to the estimation of fracture accidents. From those, unique circumstance education site has was discussed.