The Research on the Participating Motivation of Elementary School Children's in Folk Custom Sports and Self-Conception in Nantou County.

[[abstract]]The main purposes of this research are detecting the motives of the elementary students in Nanto County to take part in the folk custom sports, and discussing the self-conception of those students. Based on the variables of the students with different backgrounds, we look forward to evaluating the differences of the participating motives and self-conception of the students. In this research, we employee the questionnaire survey by using purpose selection with self-conception questionnaires, which is called “The investigations of the participating motives and self-conception of elementary students in Nanto County partaking in folk custom sports groups”, for the 552 elementary students engaging in folk custom sports groups. The questionnaire used in this study includes personal data, participating motive scale and self-conception scale. During the period of investing, we had used and received questionnaires up to 552, and the efficient questionnaires in the received ones were about 543. The ratio between received and efficient questionnaires is up to 98.36%. For identifying the hypotheses of this research, the statistic software SPSS12.0 is applied to analyse the various factors of the received questionnaires which contain average, standard deviation and T-test. In addition, we utilize the statistic technique one-way ANOVA to derive the corresponding results of our research. The main results derived from our research are summarized as following terms: 1.There are five major factors contained in the participating motives of elementary students in Nanto County partaking in folk custom sports. The factors are “ achievement demand”, “friendship”, “health related physical fitness”, “skill developing” and “happiness of sport” in order. The most desirous factor of the participating motive is achievement demand. 2.There are five major factors included in the self-conception of elementary students in Nanto County taking part in the folk custom sports groups. The factors are “family ego-concept”, “interpersonal relationship”, “self-satisfaction”, “self-perception competent” and “self-body” in order. The factor “family ego-concept” is the most important among the factors. 3.The participating motives of elementary students in Nanto County partaking in folk custom sports groups are obviously different, due to the sexual distinction, age and the time that student join in the group. 4.The self-conception of elementary students in Nanto County joining in folk custom sports groups are obviously different, due to the sexual distinction, age, the time that student join in the group and the scale of school. Key word: Folk custom sports, Participating motive, Self-conceptio