Research On The Relationship Between Leisure-time Sport Activities And Self-empowerment Of College Students From Rural Area

Participating in leisure-time sport activities not only allows participants to experience the sense of pleasure and controlling at many levels including the physical,psychological,social aspects,but also can improve the sense of happiness and acquisition to a certain extent,and can also satisfy the individual's need of self-realization.Today,with the increasingly developed productivity and the increasing leisure time,participation in leisure-time sport has become one of the most important leisure way for people,and it is of great significance to people.Since the 20 th century,under the contrast of the urban-rural dual structure,the rural areas are relatively backward and the cities are relatively developed.With the implementation of the university's enrollment expansion policy,more and more rural college students have entered the university to study and live,during the process of climbing the ladder of education,the living conditions of rural college students are extraordinarily different.Shanghai is an international metropolis with a gathering of colleges and universities,a vast river and a modest atmosphere.This study is based on those rural household registration students studying in Shanghai.Based on the symbolic interaction theory and social learning theory,this paper explores the relationship between rural college students' leisure-time sport participation and self-empowerment,and explores the impact of leisure-time sport participation on rural college students' self-empowerment.Through the methods of questionnaires and depth-interviews,the paper analyzes the situation of rural college students in the participation of leisure-time sport activities,self-empowerment status and their relationship.The results are as followed:Firstly,the demand for leisure-time sport activities of rural college students in Shanghai is relatively strong.Rural college students prefer leisure-time sport activities,and the frequency of participation in leisure-time sport activities is relatively high.The time of participation is moderate,the intensity of participation in leisure-time sport activities is not strong;There are fewer expenditures on leisure-time sport activities,which is closely related to their disposable pocket money each month.Some of them will take part-time jobs during leisure time,and rural college students have higher scores on subjective evaluation of participation in leisure-time sport activities.Male rural college students are significantly higher than female rural college students in the demand level,favorite degree,frequency of participation,participation time,participation intensity,expenditure and subjective evaluation of leisure-time sport activities.There is a difference among different types of rural college students in frequency,time and intensity of participation in leisure-time sport activities,those stay longer in Shanghai,the better healthy students tend to do better in the frequency,time and intensity participating in leisure-time sport activities.Secondly,rural college students have a higher degree of self-empowerment,male rural college students tend to have higher scores than that of female rural college students in power perception total score,internal power perception,interpersonal power perception,social power perception and self-empowerment behavior total score,internal empowerment behavior,interpersonal empowerment behavior and social empowerment behavior aspects.Different types of rural college students tend to have different self-power perceptions and self-empowerment behaviors.In self-power perception: lower grades have higher power perception than upper grades;Art rural college students have higher sense of power than liberal college rural students.Those have better health status always have higher sense of self-power perception score.Self-empowerment behavioral aspects: The difference in the self-empowerment behavior of rural college students shows that those junior,post-graduate students and above is higher than the fourth grade.Other majors have higher self-empowerment behavior score than the liberal arts students.Those super healthy rural college students tend to have higher self-empowerment behavior scores than those in poor healthy situation.Thirdly,the participation frequency,time,intensity in leisure-time sport activities of rural college students' have significant positive correlation with the total score of self-empowerment,power perception score and empowerment behavior score,and participating in leisure-time sport activities can affect self-empowerment.For rural college students,the higher frequency and intensity of participation in leisure-time sport activities tend to have higher degree in self-empowerment.