My essay will be making justified recommendations to the sport of Badminton’s general reputation by using statistics of Australian Children’s participation with references to the individual, interpersonal and institutional levels of Figueroa’s framework.

Figueroa’s Framework is a structural foundation developed by Professor Peter Figueroa. His theory focuses on the different factors affecting an individual with regards to participation in health and physical activity such as a person’s race. His framework investigates social factors such as Individual, Interpersonal, Institutional, Structural and Cultural level of influence, of which are all connected in one way or another. The Individual level focuses on the individual’s personal values, …show more content…
Scientific studies show that during 2005–06, 10.5 million Australians aged from 15 years and over (60%) took part in sports and physical recreational activities. These included 29% of the population (4.7 million people) who often participate in more than twice a week. For the remaining 40% (5.5 million people), it showed they weren’t doing much exercise to maintain their fitness levels within 12 months when being surveyed. This survey also revealed that more young people and youth participate in sport more often than adults -Elsevier Inc, Science and Medicine in sport, 2004

A young person’s upbringing and home life can influence their personality, genetics, values and attitude, and affect the participation of youth in badminton by having negative and positive outlooks on actions and decisions. Their personality affects their values, attitudes and social participation. Influential parents can also affect their social participation, as well as passing on another factor, the genetic …show more content…
In addition, this boosts the social and mental wellbeing of those who go to structured facilities such as gyms and pools compared to those who don’t. The interpersonal level connects to the Individual level because of the important influence mentors, teaches, coaches, role models, peers and family have which affect an individual’s participation results.

Some recommendations to improve the participation would be having different and various facilities which improve the skill level performed by an individual, like indoors sport buildings which are built specifically for badminton.

Sport can offer many physical activity opportunities for everyone such as sponsorships, training programs and grants because of its diversity, including such potentially ‘lifelong activities’ like cycling, swimming, aerobics, walking, tennis and badminton. The acknowledgement of this contribution to someone’s lifestyle, health (physically and mentally) and the centrality of physical activity to is reflected in many