Physical education and sports in the lives of people with disabilities

Physical culture and sports activities for many people with disabilities are an urgent vital necessity due to the state of health. The article considers the factors of motivation of people with disabilities to exercise, as well as barriers that prevent them from doing physical education and sports. The article is based on the results of a sociological study conducted by sociologists of the Russian State Social University in May-June 2022, aimed at determining the motives of people with disabilities to physical culture and sports activities and identifying obstacles that reduce their motor activity. The study was conducted using a set of sociological methods, one of which is the online questionnaire method, the second is the focus group interview method. The sociological results obtained in the course of the study allowed us to conclude that the main motive of people with disabilities for systematic physical education and sports is the desire to restore and strengthen their health. For people with disabilities, physical education and sports, on the one hand, are activities that they like to do, from which they enjoy. On the other hand, it is a vital necessity and sometimes hard, exhausting work that you have to force yourself to do. At the same time, Russian society stigmatizes people with disabilities as unable to engage in physical culture and sports, which does not contribute to increasing their motivation for physical culture and sports activity. In addition, the involvement of people with disabilities in physical education and sports activities is hindered by infrastructural problems: in a number of physical education and sports organizations, in urban spaces and adjacent sports grounds, the needs of people with disabilities are not taken into account, these organizations do not have the equipment necessary for people with disabilities, as well as personnel capable of providing them with the necessary assistance. The article also provides statistical data on the involvement of people with disabilities in physical education and sports.

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