Abstract

The purpose of this study was to effective in the maintenance and socialization by the exercise of people with a disability. As the objects of this study, it was collected that 1962 people with a disability. This data analysis was done by Amos 16.0 program. The structural Equation Model was applied to inspect the causal relations among the participation in physical activity and ecological factors of people with a disability. This level of significance was α=.05. The results are as follows: First, among all the ecological environments of the sports activity participa-tion, path effect of medical personnel factors was found as the negative effect and factor of the sports time had negative difference. In the path effect of acquaintance and friends, positive effects in sports activity time and fre-quency were showed and they had positive difference in acquaintance factor with sports activity time and it also had positive difference in sports activity time. In the path effect of media factors, it had negative effects and had negative difference(t=-2.056, p.01) between sports activity time and media factors. In case of movement fac-tors, all appeared as the negative effects such as frequency, time, and period. The path effect of instructor factors was showed with positive effect; however, family, program and facilities, policies and community factors had no response with path effect. Second, the followings are the results of analysis on prototype in disability categories. In the verification on the relating prototype between ecological variables of the disability categories and participa-tion in physical activity, while medical personnel, mass media and accessibility factors had been negatively effec-tive, acquaintance & friends and instructors had been positively effective to the physical disability. In people with a visual impairment, negative effects had been in medical personnel and instructors and positive effects had been in acquaintance & friends, policies and community factors. Accessibility had negative effects and physical activity program and facility had positive effects in people with a hearing impairment. In developmental disability, negative effects were showed in physical activity program and facility, positive effects, on the other hand, were showed in policy and community factors. In brain lesions, medical personnel, policy and community factors had been in negative effects and physical activity program and facility had been in positive effects.

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