State Park Visitors’ Leisure Time Physical Activity, Constraints, and Negotiation Strategies
State Park Visitors’ Leisure Time Physical Activity, Constraints, and Negotiation Strategies
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州立公园游客的休闲时间体力活动、限制和谈判策略
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2009
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Dorothy H. Anderson
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S. W. Stanis;I. Schneider;Dorothy H. Anderson
尽管体育锻炼对健康和幸福的益处得到了认可并得到了很好的记录，但许多美国公民并不符合疾病控制中心推荐的指导方针。公园是促进身体活动和公共健康的重要场所。然而，尽管有公园，但公园的娱乐和体力活动仍然受到限制。针对游人对公园休闲体育活动(LTPA)的限制以及相关谈判策略的研究还很缺乏。由于美国肥胖率高，LTPA患病率低，需要对影响体力活动的因素进行调查。因此，这项研究评估了LTPA的参与、对LTPA的限制(人际、个人内部和结构)，以及在公共土地上再创造的个人所使用的谈判策略。数据是通过现场和后续邮件或在线问卷在州立公园游客中收集的。在过去的12个月里，大多数受访者在研究地点参加了中等强度或剧烈的LTPA，公园和娱乐区是身体活动的前三名。在三个限制类别中，人际关系限制是受访者在公园进行身体活动的最大限制，其次是结构性限制和个人内部限制。为了解决制约因素，受访者最常使用财务管理策略，其次是认知和时间管理策略。结果表明，公园确实是经常和重要的体育活动场所，并指出了几个管理方面的问题，以帮助娱乐机构增加公共土地上的体育活动。首先，公园管理者可以超越LTPA对公园重要性的认识，采取行动并记录公园内的身体活动。其次，经理可以注意到来访者面临的LTPA限制，以及促进谈判策略的工作。最后，鼓励公园管理者和管理者利用这些发现，与公共卫生机构和资源协调，促进LTPA公园的使用。这样的努力将有助于娱乐用地管理机构将自己定位为公共卫生资源，为个人和社区的长期健康和福祉服务。
Although the health and well-being benefits of physical activity are recognized and well documented, many U.S. citizens do not meet the Center for Disease Control’s recommended guidelines. Public parks are important places that facilitate physical activity and, subsequently, public health. However, constraints to recreation and physical activity at parks exist despite the presence of parks. Studies that focus on visitors’ constraints to leisure time physical activity (LTPA) in public parks and related negotiation strategies are lacking. Due to high obesity rates and low prevalence of LTPA in the U.S., investigations of factors influencing physical activity are needed. Therefore, this study assessed LTPA participation, constraints to LTPA (interpersonal, intrapersonal and structural), and negotiation strategies employed by individuals recreating on public lands. Data were collected among state park visitors via onsite and follow-up mail or online questionnaires. The majority of respondents participated in either moderate or vigorous LTPA at the study site during the past 12 months and parks and recreation areas were among the top three locations for physical activity. Of the three constraint categories, interpersonal constraints were respondents’ greatest constraint to physical activity at the park, followed by structural and intrapersonal constraints. To negotiate constraints, respondents most frequently employed financial management strategies, followed by cognitive and time management strategies. Results suggest parks are indeed frequent and important places for physical activity and point to several management implications to assist recreation agencies increase physical activity on public lands. First, park managers can move beyond awareness of the importance of parks for LTPA to action and documentation of physical activity in parks. Second, managers can attend to the LTPA constraints visitors face as well as work to facilitate negotiation strategies. Finally, park managers and administrators are encouraged to use these findings to promote the use of parks for LTPA in coordination with public health agencies and resources. Efforts such as these will help recreation land management agencies position themselves as a public health resource, serving both individuals and communities for long-term health and well-being.?