The purpose of this study was to examine the value orientations of sport as perceived by the youth and college student. Specifically, the purpose was to investigate whether differences on selected sport values were significantly related to gender, age...
The purpose of this study was to examine the value orientations of sport as perceived by the youth and college student. Specifically, the purpose was to investigate whether differences on selected sport values were significantly related to gender, age, and sport participation.
Subjects were 1561 students(830 male and 738 female),using sysytimatical cluster sampling, from the six secondary schools and one university in Cheju. Data for the study were collected via 10 items qestionnaire. A 5-point Likert scale, strongly disagree( 1 )-strongly agree(5), was used to measure the value orientation of sport. Sufficient internal reliabilty(Cronbachs Alpha=.84) was found for the items comprising this scale. Frequencies and one-way ANOVA were used for statistical analysis.
The subjects viewed the following values acquired from the sport participation to be most important: improvement of physical fitness, good citizenship, a vehicle of social development, competition in good faith and coorperation, self-discipline, cultivation of fair play. The results indicated that gender, age and level of sport participation had a significant effects on value orientation of sport. Specifically, the gender result showed that male students perceived significantly higher level of all values of sport than did female students. The age result indicated that, for the male students, junior school students perceived significantly higher level of respect for authority than did other groups, while college students perceived significantly higher level of patriotism, self-discipline, and leadership, and physical fitness than did junior & high school students. With respect to female students, junior school students perceived significantly higher level of cultivation of competition in good faith & coorperation, respect for authority, and fair-play attitude scores than did other groups. The sport participation results revealed that, for the male students, high-sport participants expressed significnatly higher levels of all sport values(socia1 development, good citizenship, competition in good faith and coorperation, respect for authority, patriotism, social mobility, fair play, self-discipline, leadership, and physical fitness)than did low-sport participants. For the female students, high-sport participant expressed significnatly higher levels of social development, competition in good faith and coorperation, respect for authority, social mobility, fair play, self-discipline, and leadership values than did low-sport participants. Overally, the findings of this study indicated that sports are perceived in positive terms from the youth and college students.