A Sociological Study on the Aged Sports --- the present conditions and the aged sports as it to be adapted in aged society ---

本研究的结果概要如下：1.中老年人的健康和身体素质逐年下降。然而.不影响老年人的体育活动.喜欢做运动和坚持运动的程度都很高.老年人参加体育运动的原因与参加比赛或提高能力的愿望无关。门球得分保持是老年人竞技体育应考虑的因素。它在提供享受和改善福祉方面的潜力。想尝试或继续锻炼和运动的受试者比例在50多岁的人中为40%，在60多岁的人中为30%。尽管这个比例随着年龄的增长而下降。参加体育活动的比例仍然很高。有必要为参加体育运动创造某些条件。门球作为一项典型的老年人体育项目，在我国的体育界还没有太多的经验。门球的魅力在于它的社交性。重要的是要认为门球是各种运动的选择之一。超过80%的受试者认为他们的生活值得过，这种态度甚至随着年龄的增长而保持。第50代和第60代人认为，他们可以享受体育运动和锻炼在以后的未来。这些被调查者认为目前有60%以上的人将来会参加体育运动。

The outline of results of this study are as follows:1. The health and physical fitness of the middle-aged and elderly are declining year by year. However. it does not effect on the sports activities of the elderly.2. The degree of fondness for doing and viexing sports is both high.3. The reason for sports participation by the eiderly is not related to a desire for competition or improvement in one's ability. Score keeping in gateball is an element of competitive sports for the elderly should be considered. its potential for giving enjoyment and improvement in well-being.4. The percentage of subjects who want to try or continue exercises and sports is 40% for the people in their fifties and 30% for those in their sixties. Athough this percentage decreases with age. the percentages are still high for sports participation. It will be necessary to faciliate certain conditions for sports participation.5. There are not so many experiences of the gateball which is typical elderly sports. The fascination with gateball is its sociability. It is important to think that gateball is one of the choice in various sports.6. Over 80% of the subjects find their life worth living and this attitud tends to be maintained even with age.7. The fiftieth and sixtieth generation people think about that they can enjoy to play sports and exercises in the later future. Those subjects think at present time that over 60% people will play sports and exercises in the future.