2009 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

The process and related factors of exercise quitting in growing period.

Research Project

Project/Area Number	19500577
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
Allocation Type	Single-year Grants
Section	一般
Research Field	Applied health science
Research Institution	Saitama University
Principal Investigator	TOBE Hideyuki Saitama University, 教育学部, 教授 (70273745)
Project Period (FY)	2007 – 2009
Keywords	ヘルスプロモーション / 成長期 / 運動習慣 / 離脱 / 体力低下
Research Abstract	Exercise habit enhances health of people. There is, however, a great decreasing tendency with age advancement from early to late teens in the rate of those who exercise. The present study attempted to clarify the process and related factors of exercise quitting in growing period. The results showed that the following factors should be considered when planning intervention for prevention of quitting exercise habit ; i.e., 'factors relating to time', 'entrance examination', 'losing confidence', 'lack of enjoyment', 'environmental factors including social support', 'promoting exercise to students selected other club activities than exercise', and so on.

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