保護者の運動・スポーツ実践と意識が子どもの体力向上に与える影響に関する研究 : 宮城県T小学校体力検定結果を踏まえて  [in Japanese] Research on the influence of parents' awareness and practice of sports and exercise on improving the physical strength of their children : Based on results from the test of physical strength of T Elementary School, Miyagi Prefecture  [in Japanese]

In September 2000, the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) revised its Basic Plan for the Promotion of Sports, and improving the physical strength of children became one of the major new policy issues. MEXT commissioned the National Federation of Physical Training Instructors to implement a survey research, which included a test of physical strength carried out at T Elementary School in Miyagi Prefecture. Based on the results of this test, the survey, which targeted the parents of this elementary school, identified that parents who played sport and exercised were aware of their own high level of own physical strength and athletic ability. Moreover, these parents recognized the physical strength and athletic ability of their children and encouraged them to exercise and play sports. The survey also highlighted the case of parents with the opposite tendency to those parents who considered their children's physical strength and athletic ability to be high.