(1.Department of Physical Education,Donghua University,Shanghai 201620,China;2.School of Physical Education Training,Shanghai University of Sports,Shanghai 200438,China) Abstract: By establishing a database of cases of incidental death of university students in China (1981-2013), ap-plying normative analysis and data mining, from aspects such as number of death students, major and age and class, exercise characteristic, pathological diagnosis, way of on-site emergency treatment etc, the authors made a multidi-mensional comparative study of the characteristics of gender differences between the male and female students in the 151 cases, and revealed the following findings: incidents of incidental death of university students in China had shown a characteristic of non small probability in accidental incidents; the male and female university students in these cases not only showed certain characteristics of homogeneity in aspects such as age and class distribution, rate of curricular and extracurricular occurrence, seasonal rhythm during exercising, exercise load, etiological analysis, death time and way of on-site emergency treatment etc, but also had certain gender differences in aspects such as number of death students, major characteristic, age and class span, sports type and sports event, rhythm on exercise day, number of students diagnosed with heart disease etc; the causes for producing such differences should be asso-ciated with pathological factors for male and female differences in the rate of occurrence of death from heart dis-ease, physiological and psychological factors for differences between male and female university students in indi-vidual character, exercise motive, exercise habit, awareness of competition to win, exercise intensity and exercise time, teaching factors such the enthusiasm of male students for participating in strenuous exercise significantly ex-ceeding that of female students, the overall physical quality of university students in China having been deteriorat-ing over the years, some universities still having insufficient sports playgrounds, as well as social factors such as the negative influence of high speed development of internet technology on the campus learning life of university stu-dents, and formed by the interaction of multiple factors. Key words: school physical education;incident of sports accidents death;gender difference;athletic sudden death;university student;China |