The Impact Of Family Sports On Family Relationships

With the development of economic and society, people pay more and more attentions to sports, especially the family sports, and various social communities continue to strengthen the research work in family sports. However, most current research on family sports focuses on the content and form, current situations and the functions of family sports, seldom focuses on the relationships among the functions, contents and forms of family sports, as well as the process of obtaining family sports functions and its performances. Moreover, there's no literature about the influence of family sports on family relationships currently.By the use of literature review, interviews, questionnaires, mathematical statistics, this paper carried out a overall analysis to investigate the development situation of family sports and the family relationships in 292 nuclear families among urban residents in Jinan City, especially,the influence of family sports on family relationships.The study showed that,(1)There was a high involvement degree of family sports in nuclear families in Jinan. The involvement of children(74.7%) is much higher than that of parents(58.9%), who are more likely to take part in exercise with the whole family. The couples tend to participate in sports separately, while children tend to do exercise together with their families or other people.(2)There are differences in the main purposes of different parents and children to participate in sports. For the parents, The purpose of involvement in physical exercise is to keep fit(46.5%),while for the children, they participate in sports for relaxing(27.5%) and for entertainment(28%)as well as for keeping fit(30.3%).(3)During the process of developing family sports, the most common sports activities for residents to participate are jogging and walking(65.8% for parents, 58.3% for children). The places people choose for sports are parks close to home(33.7% for parents, 36.2% for children),courtyards(19.8% for parents, 31.2% for children) or open space in their residential areas(18.9% for parents, 21.1% for children), and only a few people choose the places charging for better service(9.3% for parents, 0.9% for children).(4)The participation frequencies and intensity of sports, as well as the exercise time are much lower than the standards of sports for population, which requires three times a week, and thirty minutes each time with an intensity above the average strength). Besides, the exercise is lack of systematic and scientific guide.(5)The main reasons for those nuclear families without developing family sports is that there is no spare time(69.2% for parents, 43.2 for children).(6)The level of parent-child relationships among nuclear families is above the middle level,(78.91±11.120 for parents, 78.08±11.682 for children);the marital relationships is also above the middle level(55.64±5.986).(7)The family relationships in nuclear families that develop family sports(80.33±10.972,79.42±12.113) is better than those without developing family sports(76.87±11.036, 74.11±9.300).(8)In families that develop family sports, the lower the sports intensity is, the higher the score of parent-child relationships is. The higher score also remains in the family that participate in sports for two hours in the morning or evening other than other period of time. Besides, the best exercise frequency should be controlled at 5-6 time a week, or it will does harm to parent-child relationships. A formal sports location with better service will promote parent-child relationships. Lastly, for the parents, the score of parent-child relationships is higher when doing exercise together with the whole family, while for the children, just the opposite.(9)In families that develop family sports, the score of marital relationships is much higher if the intensity controlled under the middle level(Except for the communication dimension of couples). The highest scores of marital relationships and each dimension will be got if couples take exercise before sleep in the evening with a frequency of 1-2 hours, 5-6 times a week at a formal place charged for good service.