scholarly journals Perfiles de ocio deportivo en jóvenes españoles (15-20 años): un análisis de género (Sports leisure profiles in Spanish youth (15-20 years): a gender analysis)

Retos ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 419-426
Author(s):  
Raúl Fraguela-Vale ◽  
Lara Varela-Garrote ◽  
Laura Varela-Crespo
Keyword(s):  
Quantitative Research ◽  
Ad Hoc ◽  
Sport Participation ◽  
Leisure Activities ◽  
Sport Activity ◽  
Team Sports ◽  
Leisure Activity ◽  
Sports Participation ◽  
Social Dimension ◽  
Las Mujeres

El objetivo de este artículo es analizar las características de la práctica físico-deportiva durante el ocio de la juventud que cursa Educación Secundaria Postobligatoria no universitaria (ESPO) en España (de edades entre 15 y 20 años). Concretamente, se estudia la práctica de ocio deportivo en función del género y se analizan las características de la misma (frecuencia, organización, compañía, etc.). Para ello se realizó un diseño de investigación cuantitativo en el que se aplicó un cuestionario elaborado ad hoc a una muestra representativa de 2694 estudiantes españoles de ESPO, que señalaron el ocio deportivo como su opción preferida de ocio (n= 901). En general, la modalidad de ocio preferida por la juventud española es la deportiva. Las chicas se decantan por actividades físicas individuales y artístico-expresivas, mientras que los chicos por la práctica de deportes colectivos; siendo menor el interés de las chicas por participar en competiciones deportivas. Además, la frecuencia de práctica es inferior en las mujeres durante la semana, pero no durante los fines de semana. Ellas renuncian en mayor medida que ellos a practicar actividades de ocio que les gustan. Respecto a la dimensión social de la práctica, ambos colectivos realizan deporte mayoritariamente con gente de su edad, pero ellas puntúan más bajo en esta opción de respuesta. El género es un factor determinante en la práctica de ocio deportivo juvenil, constatándose desigualdades en la frecuencia y preferencias de práctica y en la renuncia a actividades físico-deportivas que son de su agrado.Abstract. We study the profiles of sports participation of youths enrolled in Post-Compulsory Secondary Education (PCSE) in Spain (15-20 years). Specifically, it is analyzed if there are any differences according to gender in sports leisure practice and what are the sport participation features of each group. In order to do so, a quantitative research design was carried out and an ad hoc questionnaire was applied to a significative sample of 2694 ESPO Spanish students. Nine hundred and one of them were specifically studied because they selected sports practice as their main leisure preference. Overall, it is observed that the kind of leisure activity chosen by the Spanish youth is sport activity. We found that girls prefer individual and artistic-expressive physical activities, while boys opt for practicing team sports. We found a lower interest of girls in participating in sports competitions. Also, the frequency of practice is lower in women than men during the working days, but not during the weekend. Girls give up practicing leisure activities that they like much more than boys do. Regarding the social dimension of the practice, both groups practice mostly with people of their age, but girls score lower in this response option. Gender affects sports leisure of Spanish youth, differences being found in the frequency and preferences of practice, and in waivering leisure activities that they like.

High School Athletics and Adult Sport–Leisure Activity: Gender Variations across the Life Cycle

1987 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 329-346 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frank M. Howell ◽  
James A. McKenzie
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Sport Participation ◽  
Leisure Activity ◽  
Sports Participation ◽  
Structural Equations ◽  
School Level ◽  
High Status ◽  
High School Sports ◽  
School Sports ◽  
Gender Variations

There is a significant investment by schools and local communities in the athletic programs offered by secondary schools. A growing issue is, to what extent does the functioning of these sports programs coincide with the formal academic goals of the school? Using a structural equations model, we examine one theme within this major issue by estimating the effect of high school sports participation on sport and leisure activity later in adulthood. Further investigated is the process by which these effects are played out over the transition from adolescence to adulthood, as well as gender differences in the pattern of effects. Using the EEO panel of 1955 high school sophomores reinterviewed in 1970, we find that varsity and nonvarsity sports participation in high school increases adult sports involvement. However, whereas high school sports participation does not retard reading or “high-status” leisure pursuits in adulthood, curriculum track placement during high school does enhance these activities later in life. Track effects were also largely independent of completed school level. Finally, gender variations in the model were present but not uniformly so and largely appear to make sport participation and tracking effects significant only among men.

scholarly journals Investigation of Sports Participation Motivations of Physical Education and Sports School Students

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (8) ◽  
pp. 43
Author(s):  
Mehmet Yıldırım
Keyword(s):  
Physical Education ◽  
Sport Participation ◽  
Personal Information ◽  
Team Sports ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Sports Participation ◽  
Turkish Population ◽  
Sports Management ◽  
School Students ◽  
Motivation To Participate

The purpose of this study is to determine the sport participate motivation of the students who are attending physical education and sports college and to compare them according to the demographic variables. The universe of the research is composed of 480 students who are studying different programs in Bozok University Physical Education and Sports School in 2017-2018 academic year. The sample of the research consists of 180 students who are determined using random sampling technique. As a data collection tool in the research, personal information form and Gill et al. (1983) and Oyar et al. (2001) used the Sport Participation Motivation Scale, adapted to the Turkish population. The data were transferred to the SPSS 18 package program for analysis. Frequency and percentage analyzes, t test, Anova analysis and post hoc tests were used in the statistical analysis of the data. As a result of the analyzes performed, statistically significant differences were determined between the motivations of physical education and sports college students to participate in sports according to the variables of gender, age, department of education and sports branch (p < .05). It was determined that male students have higher motivation to participate in sports than female students. Students between the ages of 18-22 have a higher motivation to participate in sports than students between the ages of 23-27. Physical education and sports teaching department students were found to have higher motivation to participate in sports than the students of the coaching education department and the sports management department. Students who are engaged in team sports have higher motivation to participate in sports than students who are engaged in individual sports.

scholarly journals A quantitative analysis of high school sports participation intensity and breadth : relationships with academic achievement in a rural Missouri high school

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Chad M. Lang
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Academic Achievement ◽  
Sport Participation ◽  
Sport Activity ◽  
School Setting ◽  
Sports Participation ◽  
Practical Significance ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Grade Point ◽  
Achievement Data

The purpose of this study was to address the gap in research related to whether measures of participation (intensity and breadth) demonstrated a relationship with academic achievement for 11th grade student athletes (N=128) in a rural Missouri high school. Recent research found high school-aged students in interscholastic activities were less likely to be multisport athletes than in previous decades. This decrease in multisport participation has occurred within the context of United States participation trends which demonstrated overall participation increases from 1989 to 2017 (Bell et al.,2016; Howard, 2017; Jayanthi, Pinkham, Dugas, Patrick, and LaBella, 2013; Moore, Murphey, Bandy, and Cooper, 2014). Since increased connectivity to school viaextracurricular school activities (ESAs) enhances social bonds associated with positive academic and behavioral outcomes, a reduction in participation intensity and/or breadth may exhibit deleterious effects to the academic and social development students experience in the school setting (Crosnoe, 2002; Eccles and Gootman, 2002; Hirschi,1969). Anonymous athletic participation and achievement data from 2015-2017 was obtained from the school's archive and analyzed by correlation, hierarchical regression, and one-way ANOVA. Data derived from statistical analyses demonstrated two themes regarding sport participation, ACT, and grade-point average (GPA): a) Intensity demonstrated no statistical or practical significance to student achievement measured by ACT; however intensity of participation did share a statistically significant relationship to cumulative GPA (p less than .05) and b) an ANOVA analysis demonstrated statistically significant differences in breadth and GPA (p less than .01) between one sport athletes and three sport athletes. Three sport athletes had statistically significantly higher GPAs than one sport athletes and practically significant higher GPAs than two sport athletes. Utilizing these results suggested practical considerations for rural school administrators considering both the number of ESA sport offerings and the academic benefits ESAs multisport participation provide. Future research on ESA sport, activity, and non-activity participation related to academic outcomes is justified.

The Association Between Extra-Curricular Sport Participation and Social Anxiety Symptoms in Children

2010 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 191-203 ◽  
Author(s):  
Annemarie Schumacher Dimech ◽  
Roland Seiler
Keyword(s):  
Social Anxiety ◽  
Classroom Behavior ◽  
Sport Participation ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Sport Activity ◽  
Team Sports ◽  
Anxiety Symptoms ◽  
Primary School Children ◽  
Children’S Social Anxiety ◽  
Individual Sports

Social anxiety is a common psychological complaint that can have a significant and long-term negative impact on a child’s social and cognitive development. In the current study, the relationship between sport participation and social anxiety symptoms was investigated. Swiss primary school children (N=201), parents, and teachers provided information about the children’s social anxiety symptoms, classroom behavior, and sport involvement. Gender differences were observed on social anxiety scores, where girls tended to report higher social anxiety symptoms, as well as on sport activity, where boys engaged in more sport involvement. MANCOVAs with gender as covariant showed no differences in social anxiety symptoms between children involved in an extracurricular sport and those not engaged in sport participation. Nevertheless, children engaged in team sports displayed fewer physical social anxiety symptoms than children involved in individual sports.

scholarly journals Sports Participation is Worth Two Letter Grades in Undergraduate Admissions Decisions

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-55
Author(s):  
David Lavallee
Keyword(s):  
Social Impact ◽  
Sport Participation ◽  
Team Sports ◽  
Sports Participation ◽  
Undergraduate Admissions ◽  
Letter Grades ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
On Line ◽  
Individual Sports ◽  
The Impact

AbstractThe current study aimed to assess the impact of sports participation on undergraduate admissions decisions at universities, colleges, and conservatoires in the United Kingdom. A between subjects, experimental design was employed. Participants from providers of undergraduate courses completed an on-line experiment that required them to make a decision on one of three randomly assigned undergraduate applications written for the study: one without sport participation included (control) and two modified versions with sport participation included (one for team sports and one for individual sports). Participants were asked to decide whether to make an offer or reject the application. Significant differences were found between the control and sport-modified applications for one and two grade differences overall, as participation in sport elevated the undergraduate application. As this study was delimited to sport participation, the findings cannot be generalized to other extra-curricular activities. Future researchers could extend this investigation by examining the economic and social impact of participation in sports at secondary school post-University.

The Association of Family, Friends, and Teacher Support With Girls’ Sport and Physical Activity on the Island of Ireland

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Wesley O’Brien ◽  
Tara Coppinger ◽  
Irene Hogan ◽  
Sarahjane Belton ◽  
Marie H. Murphy ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
Social Support ◽  
Screen Time ◽  
Sport Participation ◽  
Team Sports ◽  
Sports Participation ◽  
Physically Active ◽  
Family Structures ◽  
Female Youth ◽  
The Impact

Background: The current study was the largest physical activity (PA) surveillance assessment of youth undertaken in Ireland in recent years. The purpose of this research was to assess the impact of social support, while controlling for age and screen time, on PA and sport participation, across a representative sample of Irish female youth. Methods: A total of 3503 children (mean age: 13.54 [2.05] y) across the island of Ireland participated. Participants completed a previously validated electronic questionnaire while supervised in a classroom setting, which investigated their (1) levels of PA; (2) screen time; (3) community sport participation; and (4) social support (friend, family, and teacher) to be physically active/partake in sport. Results: There were significant differences, with medium and large effect sizes, for social support from friends and family across types of sports participation. Specifically, girls who participated in the most popular team sports, when compared with the most popular individual sports, reported higher social support scores for friends and family structures. Conclusions: Findings from this study confirm the contributing influence of friends and family as sport and PA support networks for girls. Interventions should consider the importance of culturally relevant team sports for PA engagement in female youth.

scholarly journals Ethical aspects of organized contact sports for children as participants

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (8) ◽  
pp. 1823
Author(s):  
Arturo Leyva
Keyword(s):  
Sport Participation ◽  
Leisure Activity ◽  
Sports Participation ◽  
Causal Link ◽  
American Football ◽  
Health Concern ◽  
Contact Sports ◽  
Ethical Implications ◽  
Management Procedures ◽  
Adolescent Participation

This paper seeks to review the literature and address ethical implications of organized contact sports, such as American football and boxing, with significant child or adolescent participation. Child and adolescent sport participation act not only as a leisure activity, but also improves physical health and enhances psychological and social health outcomes. However, playing sports may also have negative physiological effects, such as sports-related concussions (SRCs) - a form of traumatic brain injury (TBI) - which are an emerging public health concern. This paper review and explores ethical implications of contact sports in the scientific literature and demonstrates challenged faced on philosophical deliberation on the ethical implications of SRCs and RHIs due to complexities of these conditions and their identification and treatment involving a wide variety of practical situations, which formal sports rules may not adequately address. Since scholarly literature has yet to arrive at a consensus concerning causal link(s) between contact sports participation and significant concussion-related brain damage, the paper argues in favor of strengthening concussion preventive measures, identification protocols and management procedures in contact sports. This article rejects ethical paternalism on the basis of inconclusive empirical evidence concerning associations between contact sports participation and heightened SRC risk. It also rejects Mill’s argumentation against consensualism and suggests prevention is a better solution over inadequately founded philosophical ethical proposals favoring drastically reforming contact sports.

scholarly journals Female Surfers Riding the Crest of a ‘New Wave’ of Irish National Identity

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 190-207
Author(s):  
Rachel Telford ◽  
PJ Kitchen ◽  
David Hassan
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Sport Participation ◽  
Leisure Activities ◽  
Team Sports ◽  
Republic Of Ireland ◽  
Global Pandemic ◽  
The Republic ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Identity And Difference ◽  
Women's Soccer

With surfing debuting at the 2021 Tokyo Olympics (postponed from summer 2020 due to the COVID 19 global pandemic) it is timely to consider surfing and the national identifications women in Ireland may have with this sport. As Lee Bush states, ‘with so little scholarship on surfing women, descriptive studies are needed as a foundation for launching future interpretive and critical studies.’[1] Twelve women who surf in Ireland spoke about the links their surfing may or may not have with their national identity. Previous academic inquiry on links between national identity and sport on the island of Ireland has almost exclusively focused on men’s experiences of team sports and issues of ‘Irishness’.[2] ‘Irishness’ is globally recognised and stereotypically linked to traditional and indigenous Irish sports such as Gaelic football and a range of other cultural activities. Research into women’s sport participation has largely been restricted to the study of soccer in the Republic of Ireland,[3] and gendered evaluations of various lifestyle and health surveys.[4] Katie Liston, a key researcher in sport and gender relations in Ireland, highlights that ‘there seems to be an increasing diversity in the kinds of activities in which people participate in’,[5] and that there is a shift towards ‘lifestyle’ activities for adults as diversity increases in young people’s participation in sports and leisure activities. Against the backdrop of Liston’s work, this article delves deeper into data collected as part of a wider research project, discussing whether or not women who surf in Ireland do so as part of a process designed to construct and reflect their national identities related to this arguably ‘postmodern’[6] ‘lifestyle sport’,[7] in which Ireland will be represented on the Olympic stage for the first time in 2021. [1] Lee Bush, ‘Creating Our Own Lineup: Identities and Shared Cultural Norms of Surfing Women in a U.S. East Coast Community’, Journal of Contemporary Ethnography 45, no. 3 (2016): 290–318. https://doi.org/10.1177%2F0891241614556346, 262. [2] See the work of Alan Bairner, John Sugden, David Hassan and Mike Cronin for a broad range of work in this area. [3] See for example Katie Liston, ‘Women's Soccer in the Republic of Ireland: Some Preliminary Sociological Comments’, Soccer & Society 7, no. 2 (2006b): 364 – 384. Also see Ann Bourke, ‘Women’s Soccer in the Republic of Ireland: Past Events and Future Prospects’, in Soccer, Women, Sexual Liberation: Kicking Off a New Era ed. Fan Hong and J.A. Mangan (London: Frank Cass, 2004): 162–82. [4] Katie Liston, ‘A Question of Sport’ in Contemporary Ireland: A Sociological Map ed. Sara O'Sullivan (Dublin: University College Dublin Press, 2007), 159-180. [5] Liston, ‘A Question of Sport’, 161. [6] The idea of lifestyle sport as postmodern sport is discussed in Belinda Wheaton, ed., Understanding Lifestyle Sports: Consumption, Identity and Difference (London: Routledge, 2004). Also see: Lincoln Allison, Amateurism in Sport: An Analysis and a Defence (London: Frank Cass, 2001); R. Rinehart, ‘Emerging Arriving Sport: Alternatives to Formal Sport’ in Handbook of Sports Studies ed. Jay Coakley and Eric Dunning (London: Sage, 2000), 504-519. [7] The term is used by two leading researchers in the field. See Wheaton, Understanding Lifestyle; Rinehart, ‘Emerging Arriving’.

scholarly journals Comparison of the influence of participation in screen golf on self-esteem, loneliness, depression, social isolation, and life satisfaction between people with and without disabilities in Republic of Korea

2021 ◽  
Vol 89 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-21
Author(s):  
Chul-Ho Bum ◽  
Mary A. Hums ◽  
Amy Picklesimer ◽  
Chulhwan Choi
Keyword(s):  
Life Satisfaction ◽  
Sport Participation ◽  
Leisure Activities ◽  
People With Disabilities ◽  
Leisure Activity ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Modern Technology ◽  
Validity And Reliability ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
Positive Effect

AbstractScreen golf is a product of the combination of modern technology and leisure. This new form of sport can provide people with disabilities opportunities for positive life experiences through sport participation. This study aimed to investigate differences in the effect of screen golf participation on psychosocial factors (self-esteem, isolation, depression, loneliness, and life satisfaction) in people with and without disabilities. With 293 survey respondents in this study, the Multivariate Analysis of Variances (MANOVA) was performed twice to measure differences between groups after ensuring the validity and reliability of the instrument. Participation in screen golf demonstrated a positive effect for all factors for people with disabilities. Results also showed a more positive effect on self-esteem and life satisfaction for people without disabilities with screen golf experience than for those without any screen golf experience. This study demonstrated that screen golf, as a physical leisure activity, was helpful to all study participants, with greater positive effects observed for participants with disabilities. This finding suggests that ubiquitous leisure activities such as screen golf made possible by advancements in modern technologies offer desirable benefits to many. This study is highly meaningful since it demonstrated how technologies could be helpful to people with disabilities who historically have has less access to leisure activities than able-bodied people.

scholarly journals Actividad e inactividad física durante el tiempo libre en la población adulta de Monterrey (Nuevo León, México) (Physical activity and inactivity during leisure time in the adult population of Monterrey (Nuevo Leon, Mexico))

Retos ◽  
2015 ◽  
pp. 91-96
Author(s):  
Jorge Isabel Zamarripa Rivera ◽  
Francisco Ruiz-Juan ◽  
Jeanette Magnolia López Walle ◽  
Raul Fernandez Baños
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
Elementary Education ◽  
Ad Hoc ◽  
Sport Activity ◽  
University Education ◽  
Nuevo Leon ◽  
Level Of Education ◽  
Life Styles ◽  
Nuevo León ◽  
Las Mujeres

El objetivo principal del estudio es examinar los comportamientos ante la actividad física según el sexo, la edad y el nivel de estudios de los habitantes del municipio de Monterrey (México). Se presenta un estudio de carácter transversal. La muestra fue de 1.008 personas mayores de 15 años (498 varones=49.4% y 510 mujeres=50.6%). El rango de edad estuvo comprendido entre los 15 y 87 años (M=36.57; DT=17.05). Para obtener los datos se empleó la técnica de la encuesta a través de un cuestionario ad hoc denominado «Hábitos físico- deportivos y estilos de vida». Los resultados del estudio revelaron una proporción de sujetos sedentarios dos veces superior a la de los activos, es decir, sólo una tercia parte de la población es activa. Los resultados revelaron diferencias significativas entre en el sexo (p=.001), grupos de edad (p=.000) y nivel de estudios (p=.000) en los tres comportamientos (activo, abandono, nunca). Los varones, entre 15 y 29 años de edad y aquellos con estudios universitarios son los que presentaron porcentajes más altos en el comportamiento activo. Por su parte, las mujeres, el grupo de 45 a 59 años y aquellos con preparatoria terminada los que presentan las tasas más altas de abandono. Finalmente, las mujeres, el grupo de 60 años y más y aquellos sujetos sin estudios o con estudios primarios son los que en mayor medida nunca habían realizado actividad físico-deportiva. Estos resultados pueden servir como base para el diseño de estrategias que promuevan la adherencia al ejercicio atendiendo las características de la misma.Palabras clave: Actividad Física, Sedentarismo, Abandono, Monterrey, Adultos.Abstract: The main aim of this study is to examine the behaviours during physical activity according with genre, age, and the level of education of the inhabitants of the municipality of Monterrey (Mexico). A transversal study is presented. The sample comprised 1, 008 individuals of 15 years old or older (498 male= 49.4% and 510 female= 50.6%). The rank of age was comprised between 15 and 87 years old (M=36.57; SD=17.05). To collect the data the technique of survey was used through an ad hoc questionnaire called «Physical-sport habits and life styles.» The results of the study revealed a proportion of sedentary subjects twice superior to those active subjects, that is, just a third part of the active population. The results revealed important differences between genre (p=.001), age groups (p=.000), and level of education (p=.000) in the three behaviours (active, abandonment, and never). Male, between 15 and 29 years old, and those with university education are those that presented higher percentages in the active behaviour. On the other hand, women, in the group of 45 to 59 years old, and those with high school completed are those that presented the highest rates of abandonment. Finally, women, in the group of 60 years old and older, and those subjects without education, or with elementary education, are those that to a greater extent never had performed physical-sport activity. These results can serve as a base for the designing of strategies that promote the adherence to exercise taking into consideration its own characteristics.Key words: Physical Activity, Sedentary, Desertion, Monterrey, Adult.

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