수영선수의 스포츠 가치관 연구 = A study on Swimmers' Value Orientation Toward Sport

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

This study was undertaken to investigate to swimmer's value orientation toward sport, thereby examining value differences due to school level and gender. 101 female high school swimmers(M age=16.3yrs), 149 male high school swimmers(M age=16.7yrs), 34 female college level swimmers(M age=19.8yrs) and 31 male college level swimmers(M age=22.3yrs) reported their value systems on Sport Value Orientation Inventory. The data relative to the value orientation toward sport were analyzed using frequencies, % and X??. The implications of the study are as follows;
1. At high school level, male swimmers were more concerned with moral cultivation, spiritual strength, steady effort, good manners and hard training, and less concerned with sacrifice for team's success than were their female counterparts.
2. At college levels, there was a statistically significant difference between males and female in steady effort. Males and females together valued privacy, spiritual spirit, moral cultivation and good manners, and were less concerned with individualism.
3. High school swimmers exceeded college level swimmers in valuing sport nationalism.
4. Male high school swimmers were more likely to value spiritual strength and hard training strongly than their counterparts at college level, while female swimmers were more concerned with hard training, sport-oriented life, good manners, athletic reward than female college level swimmers.
These results show the need for additional empirical studies including the socializing fa ctors of somatotype, self-concept, family structure, reference group etc., which detail the role that sport plays in shaping values. Answer to these and other questions that lead to a more precise definition of the differences in value orientation of athletes will help sport psychologists and sociologists provide a clearer picture of the athletic environment and its influence.