The family sports are in an organization form of social sports, and are the inevitable product of social development. The family sports can promote health, mediate personal competition and pressure which withstand in the modern society, provide in the spiritual and psychological consoling to the family member with the support, pull closer the family members emotional distance, and become an important method improve the family life quality and the family life way. The family sports by its rich content and nimble method may assist the development of school sports and the community sports. To promote the development of sports industry family sports expense is a new power supply. While carrying out the plan of mass fitness, the family sports displays its foundational and the continuous merit, and can play the positive impetus role. Therefore, the family sports holds the important status in social life and social function, and the enhancement of family sports research as well as the promotion of the development of family sports have the vital practical significance.This paper mainly utilizes scientific principles, such as sociology, sociology of the family, sports sociology, statistics and logic, using the questionnaire survey procedure to carry on investigation and studies of urban district family inhabitants in Zhengzhou, Kaifeng, Luoyang, the three cities in family sports active frequency characteristic, participation motive characteristic, active content characteristic, activity spatial characteristic, expense condition and influence factor six aspects in Henan Province. The result indicated that:(1) At present the characteristic of the urban family sports activity frequency in Henan Province is that 26% family never together participating in the activity occupies the first place, mainly concentrating in the mid and low earning families with an average income of less than 600 Yuan per person per month, 25% family each week doing sports 1-2 time takes the second place, mainly concentrating in the 35-45 year old and high income families with average income of more than 1000 Yuan per person per month. 21% family doing sports 1-2 time a month takes the third place, 16%family doing sports fewer than 10 times a year takes the fourth place, 12% family doing sports 3 time or above each week takes the last place; sports attitude and activity frequency are remarkably related.(2) The first five motives of family sports participation respectively are: benefit to physical and psychological health, leisure entertainment, pursuit of healthy life style, promotion of family members'emotion exchange, reduction of pressure and the adjustment of mood.(3) Urban family when directly participates in sports chooses to take a walk, the badminton, the ping pong, the chess and poker; the indirect participation in sports is primarily to watch athletic contest on television and to choose network sports games.(4) Family sports is mainly done in idle time and weekend holiday; The chosen place concentrates in the public activity places, such as the open area of the residential district, the square and the park, the free sports facility and so on, but there is an urgent desire to shift to the indoor stadium and the outdoors.(5) The Henan province family sports consumption level is low, and half a year expense is between 1-500 Yuan, occupies 5% of the family's expense disbursement; the expense level will rise with economic development, but is not the deciding element in spots expense. The consumption pattern is unreasonable, the material object sports expense is primary in which sports wear expense occupies the first place, and the non-material object sports expense is low, lacking in further improvement.(6) The more important positive factors which influence family sports development are: for health, good habits and harmonious relationship between family members; the negative factors are: the lack of sports interest, time, sports location, organizer, and the community sports.On the basis of above-mentioned conclusions, this paper carries on the forecast to the family sports future trend of development, proposes the constructive opinion, hopes to be able to provide certain reference for the government department to formulate the related measure to promote social sports development. |