Relationship between involvement in school sport practice and the perception of the quality of school sport.

Autor: SOARES, JORGE, VAN DEN TILLAAR, ROLAND
Zdroj: Journal of Physical Education & Sport; 2012, Vol. 12 Issue 4, p458-465, 8p
Abstrakt: The purpose of this study was to investigate if training experience in school sport is correlated with the perception of quality of competition in school sport. A random sample of 722 boys and 595 girls was used from a total of 5129 participants (25.7%) from elementary and secondary schools from Madeira Autonomous Region, Portugal. A questionnaire was used to identify variables related to the participation in competition in school sport of the participants and the quality of school sport, organised in a five-level Likert scale. The findings show us that training time per week of students in school sport wasn't correlated with their satisfaction in school sport competition. However, the experience in school sport training was a variable correlated with satisfaction of school sport competition. The more experienced pupils tended to be more critical in what concerns number of teams, regular competitions and punctuality of participants. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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