Managerial Guideline to Promote the Weekend Leisure Sports Participation for Junior High School Students in Shaoguan City
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Background and Aim: Encouraging weekend leisure sports participation improves physical fitness, lowers stress, and promotes a healthy lifestyle. Through common recreational pursuits, it also promotes social interaction and community involvement. This study aim to develop managerial guideline to promote the weekend leisure sports participation for junior high school students in Shaoguan City.
Materials and Methods: This study used stratified sampling to survey research subjects in Zhenjiang District, including 5 junior high schools with a total of 368 junior high school students (age from 13 to 15 years) were surveyed by questionnaires to understand the current situation of weekend leisure sports development, and expert interviews were provided to formulate a plan to promote the weekend leisure sports participation for junior high school students in Shaoguan City. Second, ten focus group experts were invited to develop a management guide to promote weekend leisure sports for junior high school students based on the POLC theory. Third, seven experts evaluated and validated the guidelines for weekend leisure sports for junior high school students.
Results: This study identifies 20 indicators across four levels: planning (sports guidance, goal motivation, planning tools, short exercise programs, exercise partner matching), organizing (program enrichment, facility openness, family activities, sports social circle, safety training camps), leading (student clubs, multi-party cooperation, competitions, student-led programs, cross-school exchange), and controlling (record-keeping, feedback, rewards and penalties, health monitoring, dynamic adjustment).
Conclusion: This study develop a management guideline to promote weekend leisure sports for junior high school students in Shaoguan City based on POLC theory. The management guide is divided into four aspects: five indicators at planning level; five indicators at organization level; five indicators at leadership level and five indicators at control level.
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