A Study of the Related Factors Influencing the Extra-curricular Regular Sport Behavior of the Students of a Certain Junior High School in Kaohsiung County

[[abstract]]The main research purpose of the thesis is to investigate the relationship among the factors of extra-curricular regular sport behavior of junior high school students. The mother colony of the study includes Grades 1, 2 and 3 students of a junior high school in Koahsiung County studying in the first school term of the academic year 2008. The study adopts stratified cluster random sampling method to carry out sampling. Totally, there were 432 samples collected. By using the research tool of a self-edited structural questionnaire, the study collected information from the questionnaires filled out by groups. The test was made during the period from September 29 to October 7, 2008. Some significant results are summarized as follows: 1. Each of the research targets who took cram school classes for 3 to 4 days after school spent 8 to 9 hours on studying at cram schools every week. Each of the research targets who took cram school classes for 4 to 5 days after school spent about 10 hours on studying at cram schools every week. The education levels of the students’ parents were mainly senior high school, vocational high school, junior college and university. The occupations of the students’ fathers inclined to be of technical and semi-professional area, and be the general civil servants. The students’ mothers were mainly the no-skill or non-technical workers. 2. The sport enjoyment sense and self-conscious sport benefits of the research targets with above-average academic performance tended to have medium to below-medium level of sport self-efficacy. Among the sport supports from family, classmates and friends, the sport support of affection had the greatest influence. As to the sport supports of teachers, information sport support had greater influence. 3. A majority of the families of research targets did not have sport places and equipments. Their sport instruments were mainly skipping ropes, bicycles and hula hoops. The sport places used in their community were mainly the school, parks, basketball courts and sport grounds. Their sport equipments were mainly the fixed basketball frames and basketball shooting machines; and their sport instruments were mainly bicycles, basketballs and badmintons. The sport places used at schools were mainly the basketball court and volleyball court. Their sport equipments were also mainly the fixed basketball frames and volleyball net systems; and their sport instruments were mainly basketballs, volleyballs, badmintons and relay batons. 4. The research targets having regular sports every day were around 46% of the total targets, and those having regular sports every week were only 41% of the total targets, revealing that the students took moderate degree of regular sports. Besides, around 44% of the research targets took up regular sports every day; and 52% of the research targets took up regular sports every week. Therefore, the facilitation of regular sports still has room for improvement. 5. Among the socio-psychological factors of the research targets, sport enjoyment sense, sport self-efficacy and self-conscious sport benefits have positive correlation with extra-curricular regular sport behavior. Among the social support factors, the supports from families, classmates and friends have positive correlation with extra-curricular regular sport behavior. Among the environmental factors, sport instruments and equipments in families and communities have positive correlation with extra-curricular regular sport behavior. 6. As observed from the analysis of regression model, the higher the sport self-efficacy of research models, the better the self-conscious health condition; and the stronger the sport enjoyment sense, the sounder the sport instruments of community. As a result, the extra-curricular regular sport behavior can be more improved.