Abstract
The current study was conducted to compare participation in exercise, attitude to exercise, and perceived exercise barriers of persons with disabilities according to the characteristics such as type of disability, the severity of disabilities, and use of auxiliary devices. The data was extracted from the raw data of the persons with disabilities in 2017, and the selected participants were 6,397 persons with disabilities who had registration disabilities. Data analyses were conducted through descriptive statistics, frequency analysis, and chi square test using SPSS 24.0 program. The main results are as follows. First, disabilities characteristics such as type of disability, the severity of disabilities, use of auxiliary devices were different according to the age. Second, regular exercise participation rates differed significantly depending on age-specific disability characteristics such as type of disability, the severity of disabilities, and use of auxiliary devices. Third, attitudes toward exercise and disability sports instructors differed depending on the age-specific disability characteristics. Fourth, perceived exercise barriers were different depending on age-specific disability characteristics.
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