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

本研究的研究结果概要如下：1。中老年人的健康和体质逐年下降。然而。它对老年人的体育活动没有影响。对做运动和观看运动的喜爱程度都很高。老年人参加体育运动的原因与渴望竞争或提高自己的能力无关。门球记分是老年人竞技体育中应考虑的一个因素。它能给人以享受和改善生活的潜力。50多岁的人想尝试或继续锻炼和运动的比例是40% 60多岁的人是30%尽管这一比例随着年龄的增长而下降。参加体育运动的比例仍然很高。为参加体育运动创造一定的条件是必要的。门球是一项典型的老年人运动，而门球的体验并不多。门球的魅力在于它的社交性。门球是各种运动项目的选择之一，这一点很重要。超过80%的研究对象认为他们的生命是值得活下去的，这种态度甚至随着年龄的增长而保持。第五十和六十代的人认为他们可以在以后的将来享受运动和锻炼。那些被调查者认为目前超过60%的人将来会参加体育锻炼。

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.