Perception of Discipline According to Gender, Type of School, Sport Activity and Interest in Physical Education in Spanish Students = Perception of Discipline According to Gender, Type of School, Sport Activity and Interest in Physical Education in Spanish Students

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The purpose of this study was to compare the differences between different groups (student`s gender, type of school, interest in physical education (PE) and sport activity outside school hours), based on the student`s disciplined/undisciplined behaviour in the PE class. The sample was formed by 456 students aged between 14 and 16, from the 3rd and 4th ESO (compulsory secondary education) course in the Region of Murcia (Spain). The study was performed in the months of the third school term and the questionnaire was handed out in the PE hall. The scales used for the study were the Reasons for Discipline Scale (RDS) and Strategies to Sustain Discipline Scale (SSDS), both created by Papaioannou (1998). The results obtained from the univariate analyses showed that girls were more disciplined and perceived more intrinsic reasons in their teachers for maintaining discipline than boys, who demonstrated more undisciplined behaviour and perceived more reasons of indifference or introjection in their teachers for maintaining discipline. On the other hand, students that liked PE and did sport were more disciplined and perceived more intrinsic reasons in their teachers for maintaining discipline.