The purpose of this research is to identify the effects of students’ involvements in sports clubs at schools on their emotional empathic abilities and the flexibilities of their adaptation to school lives, and to look into the relationship between t...
The purpose of this research is to identify the effects of students’ involvements in sports clubs at schools on their emotional empathic abilities and the flexibilities of their adaptation to school lives, and to look into the relationship between the two traits above.
Questionaires have been used for this purpose, conducting a survey of a total of 900 students at four middle schools selected in Seoul, 741 copies of which have been analyzed, while 159 copies have not been included for the matter of faithfulness.
Analyses such as Frequency, t check, one-way ANOVA, Pearson Correlation, Linear Refression have been conducted by SPSS 18.0 which is one of the statistical programs.
Middle School Students’emotional empathic abilities and the flexibilities of their adaptation to school lives can be summed up as follows;
First, for the difference of involvement in relation to gender and grade, female students have been shown higher than their counterparts, especially the seniors being highest.
Second, the difference of emotional empathy based on gender and grade, in the sense of positive sharing, emotional commitment, and emotional infection, has been shown to have statistical significance.
Third, the difference of the flexibilities of their adaptation to school lives by gender and grade, in terms of interest in school, attitude toward the academic achievement and observance of school regulations, has been statistically signified.
Fourth, it has been shown, followed by the analysis of corelation among all the variables, that there is a static corelation among them.
Fifth, from the effectiveness perspective of involvement on the emotional empathy, positive sharing has been highest, emotional empathy the second, followed by emotional infection, all being statistically meaningful.
Sixth, from the view of effectiveness of involvement on the flexibilities of students’ adaptation to school lives, interest in school has been ranked highest, attitude toward academic achievement being the second, observance of school regulations the last, all having statistical significance.
Seventh, looking into the relationship between the flexibilities of students’ adaptation to school lives and their emotional empathy, emotional empathy has been affected by interest in school and observance of school regulations as well, while attitude toward academic achievement not making any statistical difference. From this research, emotional empathic abilities and the flexibilities of their adaptation to school lives have been shown to be affected by the involvement in school sports clubs in the proportional sense.
Also, it has been demonstrated that it is essential for the physical education instructors to motivate students to eagerly participate in the activities at school sports clubs, and to enhance the involvement in school sports clubs by giving assignments brought down to their individual levels.