A study of Recreational Sports Participation and Constraint Factors of Teachers in Junior High School—Taking Yilan County for Example

[[abstract]]This research aims to find out the present participation and constraint factors of recreational sports of the teachers in Yilan county, and make suggestions based on the results for teachers’ participation in recreational sports and for the educational authorities’ organization of recreational sports activities. The study applies the method of ?purpose sampling,? and 379 effective samples are collected from 440 copies of ?The Questionnaire Of Recreational Sports Participation and Constraint Factors of Teachers in Junior High School in Yilan County? designed by the researcher. The result data is analyzed through descriptive statistics, t-test, chi-square and anova, and the major findings are presented as follows: 1. In participation in recreational sports, just 25.3% of the respondents reach more than three times a week, and most of them take 31 minutes to 60 minutes each time. The recreational sports that the teachers engaged themselves in most is ?out-door activities,? and their favorite ones are ?walking, biking and badminton?. 2. Among constraint factors of recreational sports of the teachers in Yilan County, the individual factor is the key discouragement that inhibits the teachers from recreational sports, among which interest, health, and physical strength influence the most. 3. Teachers with different genders, ages, marriage statuses, major subjects, monthly income, and school scales make significant difference to their participation in recreational sports, but those who with different positions show no difference. 4. Teachers with different marriage statuses, major subjects, and school scales make significant difference to the constraint factors they have in their participation in recreational sports, but those who with different genders, ages, positions and monthly income show no difference. Key Word: junior high school teacher, participation in recreational sports, constraint factors of recreational sports.