| In modern society,the average life expectancy is increasing and people's living standards are greatly improved.In the meantime,human beings are facing with the problem of aging and low birth rate around the world,which may become the norm in the future.As a recreational sport with both entertainment function and fitness function,gateball has been introduced into our country since 1970's,which has a very solid mass foundation in the middle-aged and elderly groups.It has been confirmed by many studies that appropriate participation in gateball can improve the health level of middle-aged and elderly people.As a sport for the elderly,gateball can not only improve the health of the elderly,but also promote their integration into society.Based on this,this paper focuses on the social interaction in Lanzhou city,Gansu province by studying the four dimensions of individual social interaction of the gateball,aiming to enrich the value theory system of gateball and provide theoretical basis for the development and application of gateball.This paper takes the social interaction existing in the process of Lanzhou gateball as the research object,and adopts questionnaire,interview,logical analysis,mathematical statistics and so on.This paper mainly investigates and analyzes the dimension,depth,breadth and frequency of interaction between the players of gateball in Lanzhou.The following conclusions are drawn from the research on the impact of the four dimensions:1.Gateball in Lanzhou has extensive mass foundation,with 32 member units.The participating groups include government agencies,universities,small-scale units and departments as well as individual organizations.At the same time,the hardware condition of gateball base is superior.Each major unit and school has its own gateball field,and a certain number of gateball competitions are held every year.2.The value of gateball can interact with that of sports at the level of social interaction,and its impact on individuals lies in the psychological and physiological levels.The influence of gateball on the four dimensions of individual social interaction is interwoven and the state of each other is influenced.3.For different types of social interaction,the influence of gateball is different.Among them,the most obvious is the influence on the emotional level of the gateball players,which is conducive to the establishment of harmonious emotional management among the gateball players and the reduction of the possibility of negative emotions at the social level.It cansatisfy the social status identification needs of some gateball players.It is more or less related to the gender,age and their length of playing gateball.4.Gateball is conducive to relate and tend the interests of individuals.Besides,gateball can extend the time of individual social interaction.The effect of emotional dependence on female is obvious.These effects are related to the gender,age and years of practice.5.Gateball can arrange reasonable leisure and entertainment time for individuals and promote the realization of lifelong learning;what's more,it helps to enlarge the social circle between the gateball players and the non-gateball players.This kind of effects are more or less related to the gender,age and age of the players.6.Gateball can promote the social frequency between gateball players,eliminate the psychological and social loneliness of some gateball players and increase the frequency of social interaction between individuals and groups;This kind of effects are more or less related to the gender,age and age of the players.Based on the above conclusions,the following Suggestions are put forward:1.For middle-aged and elderly people prone to social emotional communication,gateball can play a good buffering effect on related adverse emotions,and the development of gateball is conducive to meeting emotional needs.It is suggested to strengthen the publicity of the gateball and guide the elderly to participate in the game,so as to eliminate the loneliness,loss and other adverse emotions of the elderly,make them integrate into the society and participate in social interaction.2.It is suggested that the management department of the gateball should carry out abundant competitions and activities to promote the development of the gateball and enable the social individuals involved in the gateball to meet their social participation and emotional needs.Meanwhile,to drive more senior citizens to integrate into society and release negative emotions caused by lack of social activities. |