Interview Reflection: Barriers and Motivators to Sport Participation

This assignment presents a reflection on conducting interviews, focusing on the barriers and motivators to participating in sport. The student conducted an interview with a participant, exploring their perceptions of walking, its benefits, and the challenges to consistent participation. The student prepared open-ended questions to understand the participant's views on walking's physical and mental health benefits. The reflection discusses the interview process, including the challenges of note-taking and potential biases due to the pre-existing relationship with the participant. The student also reflects on the effectiveness of the interview techniques used, such as expanding on 'yes' or 'no' answers to gather more in-depth information, and the surprising outcomes of the interaction. The assignment also includes the experience of conducting an interview with the student's son regarding piano lessons, highlighting the challenges of maintaining focus with a younger participant and the impact of note-taking during the interview. Furthermore, the assignment outlines the recruitment of three participants to explore whether health status is a parameter for exercise adherence. The student reflects on the challenges of scheduling interviews and the decision to record the interviews. The assignment provides insights into the interview process, the importance of interview techniques, and the challenges of gathering information from participants.

Running head: BARRIERS AND MOTIVATORS TO PARTICIPATING IN SPORT
BARRIERS AND MOTIVATORS TO PARTICIPATING IN SPORT
Name of the Student:
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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.