Value of Voluntary Participation in Sports Activities and the Factors Hindering Exercise

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· 저자명 : 정주섭, 박정훈

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Voluntary participation in sports is an important process in enjoying sports and enhances a person’s quality of life and acts as a bridge between members of the society and between the past and the future. This study analyzed the relations in voluntary participation of Americans in sports so that it would help people to live better lives. And hope it would induce voluntary sports activity which would benefit in people’s self-respect, psychological and social development, and present the importance of the physical, mental, and social aspects of sports.
Unlike Korea, voluntary sports in developed countries are definite and diverse, and specialized programs are continuously developed and applied. On these grounds they blend their characters in to the sports. Even so, we cannot accept or recommend the statistics of developed countries as a ruling one without considering the level of that of the Koreans. Recognizing one’s own life and the need for sports activity siffers significantly between Korea and other developed countries.
Those who have little or no interest or those who had no chance to play in sports would definitely not be able to adapt oneself to sports. When forced into sports, one can develop fixed ideas and retrogression, loss of emotional flexibility, psychological and social discontent due to low activity and dissatisfying life. These can lead to expressing anxious behavior.
To prevent and improve the shortcomings written above one must be opened to new stimulations, feel content on one’s life, and maintain a certain level of physical and mental activity. These can be achieved by voluntary sports would be essential to us living in a such stressful society. In order to induce such voluntary sports, first, the individuals should participate more actively with less expense and burden. Second, the government should expand its efforts. Third, various specialized programs has to be developed in order to assist the participants to feel the sound mind and healthy body, so that it would not be a mere physical activity. And whatsoever, to discover oneself as a member of the society.
Researchers should develop programs for many sports and provide a reasonable explanation and they should also deliver the positive results of developed countries’ sports. Training of sports professionals with verified theories is needed so that they can teach with foresight. The policy for expanding the advanced sports culture shall encourage the people of all ages to take part in directly or indirectly, instead of focusing on making profits from the specific group. In other word, participation in sports activities by means of watching or playing will surely bring the physical and spiritual benefits in sports value to those participating in the activities than the non-participants. Such benefits are not only for individuals but also for their families and people around them as well as the whole people in the nation and furthermore, they help enhance the nation’s economic development, reliability and national competitiveness in the world. The sports researchers thus shall develop the non-sports program and a long-term policy to select the human-centered business sponsor with less commercial profit and to provide nationwide assistance so as to expand the sports facilities through distributing the rational knowledge. Finally, it’s necessary to train and maintain the sports experts who will distribute the positive outcome of sports value in advanced nations as well as provide the education with proven theory and prediction based on accurate data and information

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