The purpose of this research is to provide basic data that contributes to activate school sports clubs as clarifying the different social development of youths according to their participation in school sports clubs. Total 878 students were randomly ...
The purpose of this research is to provide basic data that contributes to activate school sports clubs as clarifying the different social development of youths according to their participation in school sports clubs. Total 878 students were randomly selected from three middle schools and three high schools in B city. 243 middle school students (male: 155, female: 88) and 208 high school students (male: 124, female:84) participated to the activities of school sports clubs, and 237 middle school students(male:136, female:101) and 190 high school students (male:107, female:83) did not participated to the activities of school sports clubs. I analyzed the different sociality as analyzing three factors, the variables from the environment(following the students’ school grade and gender), their participation in the school sports clubs, and their spending time for the school sports clubs (the period of attendance, frequency of attendance, and the amount of attending time per activity).
In order to measure the entire 878 male/female middle and high school students’ sociality and verify the average difference, I used t-test, one way ANOVA, Scheffe after the survey. I expect that the result from this research would contribute to positively settle the idea about ‘the different social development of youths according to their participation in school sports clubs’.
First, the youths’ sociality showed some difference related to their nature of achievement and leadership (high school students> middle school students) regarding the variable of the students’ school grade, and there was no difference regarding the variable in other areas. Their leadership and the nature of self-regulation only showed some difference considering gender of the participants, and other areas did not show any difference regarding the participants’ gender. Second, the students who participated to the activities of school sports clubs showed high scores on every area of sociality, the nature of action, achievement, leadership, sociality, and the nature of self-regulation compared to the students who did not participate to the school sports clubs. Third, when the students participated to the school sports clubs for a longer period, their leadership and self-regulation had statistically more meanings (more than 2 years> 1∼2 years> less than 1 year). Fourth, the frequency of attendance per week did not influence their sociality in terms of nature of action, achievement, leadership, sociality, and the nature of self-regulation statistically. Fifth, the amount of attending time for the school sports club per meeting did not influence their sociality in terms of nature of action, achievement, leadership, sociality, and self-regulation statistically (p>.05).
In this research, the participation in the school sports clubs brought positive influence to the development of youths’ sociality. Physical education of school and「School Sports Clubs」have close relationship, so it is necessary to establish a developing system that connects each other.
The first task in the field of Korean sports is to establish a direction that leads the development of sports for all and elite sports on the foundation of cooperation and active investment in facilities from the government, local governments, schools, and the citizens.
I expect that the pilot project of the government「School Sports Clubs」and the participation of youths to sports activities through 「School Sports Clubs」will have a significant meaning in terms of “developing lifelong exercise”, ‘settlement of healthy leisure life style’, and ‘maintaining and developing health’, and they will contribute to advance Korean sports in the long run.