(Department of Sports Art,Guangzhou Sport University,Guangzhou 510500,China) Abstract: In order to probe into the correlations between children exercise habits and social & economic factors, hence to provide data support and theoretical criterion for the establishment of related policies, the author carried out a ques-tionnaire survey on the children aged 7 to 12 in 7 schools in Guangdong province, did a statistical analysis of data by using spss20.0 statistical software, and revealed the following findings: 1) the differences in exercise times and fre-quencies between the resident children and migrant children were statically significant (P<0.05), the differences in ex-ercise times and frequencies of the children of different genders were statistically significant too (P<0.05); the exercise times and frequencies of the resident boys were the longest/highest, followed by the resident girls’ and migrant boys’, tailed by the migrant girls’; 2) a child’s exercise time and frequency did not correlate with the degree of education of his / her father (P>0.05), but correlate with the degree of education of his / her mother and the family income (P<0.05), and positively. The said findings indicate that the higher the degree of education of a mother, the higher the monthly family income, the longer the exercise time and the higher exercise frequency of her children will be. Key words: sports psychology;exercise habits;social and economic factors;migrant children;resident children;Guangdong |