Barriers and Motivators to Participating in Sport

This article discusses the barriers and motivators to participating in sports, specifically walking as a form of exercise. It includes an interview with a 22-year-old participant who shares their views on the topic. The participant discusses the benefits of walking for physical and mental health, but also mentions the challenges of maintaining a daily routine due to educational pressure. The article concludes with reflections on the interview process and the importance of asking open-ended questions.

Running head: BARRIERS AND MOTIVATORS TO PARTICIPATING IN SPORT
BARRIERS AND MOTIVATORS TO PARTICIPATING IN SPORT
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To recruit one participant, I sent out messages to my family and one of my 22-year-old cousins
interested in participating in the interview with me. It was challenging to confirm a suitable time.
The interview duration was 9 minutes and 20 seconds, and then he loses his focus and starts
wandering off. It was not surprising to me as I know participant is very busy because he prepared
for medical exams.
To evaluate the topic, I prepared three open-ended questions, I asked:
1. Tell me the concept and strength of walking?
2. How do you know walking is good for physical and mental health?
3. How do you know your decision is not correct?
I asked him open-ended questions to the participant. I decided to note down their concept rather
than record the interview. I thought that it would be less confusing for the participant of the
interview. When I started to write the notes, rather than recorded in the Tab, then the participant
asks me questions like: What are you writing in this notepad? Can you allow me to see this?
Then participant describes his concept of walking.
My experience in directing the interview was pretty good. Firstly, I have noticed where the
participant has freely expressed his opinions about the good impact of walking. Though, I try my
best and only concentrate on the topic which is emerged in this interview.
I said the participant to choose yes or no as his answer. For example, I asked him to do you like
morning walk for daily basis? Here I got a Yes response! Then, I asked why? By using this
technique, I managed to expand on the Yes answer and get additional information about this. I

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found that walking is significantly improved physical and mental health, but he does not
maintain this as a daily basis for his educational pressure.
The participant assumed walking in the part of the exercise, and it improves heart health and
reduces stress. He felt the experience did not go appropriately because of his preparation for
medical exams. This theme defined the participant’s trust and confidence that walking is so good
for him because it is something he evolved to do. Due to my relationship with the participant,
this answer quite surprised me. I hadn’t linked daily morning walk with reducing stress until I
investigated and studied the data from this interview.
I enjoyed this interaction session which outcomes surprised me a lot. However, next time, when I
would not take notes in the interviewing period as I found that distracting to myself and also the
participant. This experience helps me to improve my way of interaction with someone. However,
introducing related questions and then expanding on the Yes or No answer proved helpful in
extracting more in-depth answers to the question. Furthermore, having a good relationship with
the participant probably introduced unrecognized bias.