The purpose of this study was to examine the influence of Athlete's attachment to sport on delinquency, based on the social control theory. More specipically, this study was to analyze and test the relationship between sex and background of social cla...
The purpose of this study was to examine the influence of Athlete's attachment to sport on delinquency, based on the social control theory. More specipically, this study was to analyze and test the relationship between sex and background of social class and attachment to sport, in addition to the relationship between attachment to sport and levels of delinquency among high school athletes.
Subjects of this study were sampled from 184 male and 58 female high school athletes resided in Seoul, by the stratified cluster random sampling. The data collected from questionnaire designed for this were consisted of responses to items constructed to represent each variables.
Statistics employed in this study were multiple classfication analysis and multiple regression analysis.
Based on the procedures and results, the following conclusions were warranted:
First, male athletes show higher attachment to coachs and athletic teams, and overall sport attachments than that of females, while there is no significant difference between male and female athlete in attachment to cohort athletes. And also there are no significant differences in attachment to coachs, athletic teams and cohort athletes, and overall sport attachments among background of social class.
Second, attachment to athletic teams and cohort athletes has negative effects on levels of all delinquency, while attachment to coachs does not influence on all factors of delinquency.