Several factors affect sports and recreation participation in human communities. Such
factors include sports and recreation knowledge and skills of people, availability of
time, interest and disposable income etc. Through expressing their various social
needs, community residents are able to show the adequacy and or the inadequacy in
the factors influencing sports and recreation participation in their communities.
Several studies have indicated that inadequacy in the factors influencing sports and
recreation participation such as inadequate programmes, lack of interest, lack of
disposable income, lack of facilities result in low participation in sports and recreation
activities. Low participation in sports and recreational pursuits could result in
increased hypokinetic morbidity and other social and economic problems such as:
crime, substance and drug abuse, juvenile delinquency, alienated anti-social
behaviours, work absenteeism, medical and social justice costs in communities.
The main purpose of the study was to find different sports and recreation needs of
three communities in Botswana. Five hundred (500) residents of the three
communities aged 18-40 years were randomly selected in the three communities in
Botswana to participate in the study. The questionnaire that was prepared and
administered on the randomly selected residents of the three communities attempted
to gather the following information: general sports and recreation participation profile
of the respondents of the three communities, participation in sports and recreation
activities in the three communities' recently constructed integrated sports facilities,
problems responsible for low participation in sports and recreation activities and
finally to identify which of the five barrier categories; aptitude, socio-economic,
socio-cultural, awareness of community integrated sports facilities and facility
constraints constrained sports and recreation in the three communities. Descriptive
statistics and frequency, T-test and ANOVA were used to analyse data.
The results showed low participation that ranged from 0.0% to 47.4% in sports
activities in the three communities, participation in few recreational activities, low
participation in the three communities' integrated sports facilities accounted by 29.5%
in Molepolole, 26.1% in Serowe and 53.4% in Masunga for both men and women.
The results showed problems perceived to constrain sports and recreation
participation in the three communities. Descriptive data analysis also showed that out
of the five barrier categories (aptitude, socio-cultural, awareness of facilities and
facility constraints) respondents of the three communities were mainly constrained by
the socio-economic barriers. Facility constraints were only found to constrain
participation in Masunga. T-test analysis showed no significant differences between
males and females of each of the three communities in the five barrier categories. The
ANOVA test of variance showed significance difference between females of the three
communities in four of the five barrier categories and a no significant difference in
one of the five barrier categories. No significant difference was found between males
of the three communities in four barrier categories and a significant difference was
only found in one barrier category.
These results led to the acceptance of the hypothesis that 'the three communities in
Botswana have similar sports and recreation needs' and the partial acceptance of the
hypothesis that 'there is no significant difference between respondents of the three
communities in the way they experienced the five barrier categories. / Thesis (M.A. (Recreation Science))--North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2004.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:NWUBOLOKA1/oai:dspace.nwu.ac.za:10394/206 |
| Date | January 2003 |
| Creators | Sayed, Israel |
| Publisher | North-West University |
| Source Sets | North-West University |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis |
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