Research On Perception Of Risk In Exercise Of The Elderly

Based on the conception of the perception of risk in exercise of elderly people, this research using the qualitative research explore the theory of the perception of risk in exercise of elderly people,and the quantitative research was also be made by questionnaire with the elderly people in Taiyuan city. The result would be used for a reference in later research about risk in exercise of elderly people.The research shows some conclusions as followed:(1)The theory of perception of risk in exercise of elderly people was constructed by the structure,the character and the influence factors.And the structure of perception of risk——perceived benefit and the fear was the core concept of the theory;the characteristics includes non-rationality, controllability and stability;Pareto analysis shows that main factors are perceived benefit, mode of exercise, experience,emotion, attribution, characteristic of the risk and conformity. Minor factors are knowledge and risk communication;and the interval,character traits and the time of exercise are the common factors.(2)Based on the qualitative research, this paper finished the questionnaire of perception of risk in exercise of elderly people.(3)The factor analysis revealed that the content of the perception of risk in exercise of elderly people were risk preference, risk fear and risk treatment, and there were no significant differences in genders and experiences about the perception of risk in most items, and was significant differences partly in ages.(4)Though the sorting and sequencing, the important influence factors are benefit, mode of exercise, visual risk, conformity and self-efficacy, accord with the qualitative research mostly.(5)This paper use the combination of qualitative research and quantitative research as method to research the perception of risk in exercise of elderly people. The result showed that the two methods were consentaneous.The different outcome between the risk perception and the risk in exercise were due to the cognitive characteristic of the elderly people, and the subjective perception was influenced by some factors easily. Beside, sampling error was also a causation lead the difference.