[[alternative]]An Investigation and Study on the Present Participation of Track and Field Athletics in Recreational Activities in Taoyuan County

[[abstract]]Abstract This study aimed to discuss the different track and field athletics participation in leisure activities, to analyze its recreation effect in participating leisure activities, and to understand the elements of its constraints. Furthermore, the author wished to discuss what difference each of these factors may cause during their participation. The author focused his attention on the objects as “the Track and Field Athletics in Junior and Senior High Schools in Taoyuan County.” The author picked up one hundred athletics by stratified random sampling out of the target population, and adopted the author’s own editorial work “An Investigation and Questionnaire of the Track and Field Athletics in Taoyuan County on the Present Participation in Leisure Activities” as a reference. Through analyzing the distribution of population in each activities, the descriptive statistics, creditability in this study itself and the factors mentioned above, along with t-tests and one-way ANOVA, the author reached his conclusions hoping to offer useful suggestions for coaches and athletics. 1、High school athletics participate mostly in the following five recreation activities: listening to music, relaxing, chatting, watching TV（video tapes and DVD）, playing computer. 2、Five major leisure effects from participating these activities were: offering relaxation, maintaining health and stamina, post-training body situations, refreshing vigor and also obtaining a chance to build friendship with others. 3、Five leisure constraints participating recreation activities were anticipating overcrowded population which results in poor quality of recreation, the noise during recreation activities, the lack of both recreation equipments, locations which also lack proper directors, and extra time. 4、Sexes, categories of schools, years of training, and levels of competitions did not show apparent differences in participating recreation activities, recreation effects, and leisure constraints of high school Track and Field athletics in Taoyuan County. Key Words：Senior High School、Track and Field athletics、 Recreation、Leisure effect、Leisure Constraints