Today, most people are experiencing serious psychological and physical stresses due to the complicated structure in the modern society that shows a typical pattern of accelerated industrialization. Korean youths are also not spared from this trends, a...
Today, most people are experiencing serious psychological and physical stresses due to the complicated structure in the modern society that shows a typical pattern of accelerated industrialization. Korean youths are also not spared from this trends, as they usually cannot find time for leisure of health-promoting activities because of overly fierce competition for entering schools of higher grades.
Studying the sporting activities by Korean youths, I have attempted to define the characteristics of environmental stimulation that affect the pattern of individual activities, and to find the types of sports and facilities they prefer.
This thesis also tries to find the relationship between the environmental conditions around the youths and their sporting activities. The subject of the research was the group of male and female high school students in Mokpo city. I have used structured questionnaire from to investigate their knowledge about sports and the reality of their sporting activities. Out of 400 questionnaire, I classified the questions with insincere or missing answers as missing answers.
I have used a statistical tool of the Frequency Analysis to find the characteristic and distinctive quality of the variables. To study the correlation between the two variable factors, I have performed the Cross Analysis and the Correlation Analysis. Additionally, Regression and Variance Analysis were introduced to study the relations among the variable factors.
From the information collection and analysis processes, I have drawn the following conclusions of this research:
1. Most youths favor the kinds of sports that can be enjoyed casually for less expenses. While male students were in favor of more active sports, female students showed opposite pattern. For the male students, the frequency of sporting activities is approximately one to two times per week, but is not for female students. The duration of an each activity is usually less than one hour or half an hour per day.
2. The biggest reason for preventing them from engaging in sports is shortage of time, due to intensive preparation for the entrance examination for higher school. Almost all of the students felt that sports facilities in their vicinity were not sufficient enough. That reconfirms the shortage of sport facilities in the region.
3. The degree of satisfaction with the sport facilities is not related with the students' sex, grade, age, or residential areas. Likewise, their degree of preference on sporting activities also didn't show any relationship with their residential areas.