A competition is one of the motivation factors to achieve academical success in school. Particularly, physical education class applies various forms of sports to teenager, and accordingly students have easily experienced competition. A victory or defe...
A competition is one of the motivation factors to achieve academical success in school. Particularly, physical education class applies various forms of sports to teenager, and accordingly students have easily experienced competition. A victory or defeat is existed in most competition in the sport activity, consequently students have experienced a success or failure to become an important factor to accomplish a attitude of physical education. Since physical activity perceived in adolescence or the attitude of sport has great influence on future participation of physical activity, examine the attitude and the awareness of students on competitive activity is critical. Thus, the purposes of this study are how students aware of the competitive activity in physical activity in middle school and how motor skill of students affects attitude and awareness of competitive activity in depth.
Study participants are total of 32 people composed of 16 male and 16 female students selected from two middle schools in D metropolitan city. The motor skill of participants has examined as above average, average, and below average based on the multilateral standards such as physical education grade in practical test and evaluation of physical education teacher. Observation without participation has performed four times a week for four weeks, and overall atmosphere in the class, behavior, and attitude of the participants have observed. The in-depth group interviewing has carried out once with total of 5 groups composed of 6 or 7 participants for 40 to 50 minutes. The collected data are distinguished by step of transcription, coding, and creation of subject, and inductively analyzed their significance. To verify the analyzed data, consultation between colleagues, examination between member, multilateral examination have exploited.
The result of study is largely composed of awareness of competitive activity, attitude and awareness of competitive activity based on the motor skill. Firstly, positive awareness such as interesting, fun, challenging, cooperation, and motivation has observed, while negative awareness such as irritation, criticism, jealousy, and psychological burden has observed. Also, distribution of team, the student who possess the ball, ill-mannered action, seriousness to competition are observed to be factors that affect to attitude and awareness of competitive activity. Secondly, analysis of attitude and awareness based on the motor skill of competitive activity implies a student who has high motor skill has felt activities presented in physical education class are not competitive than common sports, and has enjoyed the activity with friends whether he win or lose. However, he becomes negatively aware of a student who has low motor skill or has not participated in competitive activity. Students who has average motor skill enjoy the challenging activity, yet have many complaints on passing during the competitive activity. Students who have low motor express positive attitude in the activity such cooperating with other friends or forming a league, yet they tends to express passive attitude such as easily giving up and feeling of alienation. Based on the result of study, the class is being taught to be considered the individual difference to all students to have positive attitude and interest in participating competitive activity in physical education class. Moreover, various educational course and teaching procedure should be constantly developed.