Sports and recreactional activity of Austrian pupils from an alpine region
Journal Title: Antropomotoryka. Journal of Kinesiology and Exercise Sciences - Year 2013, Vol 23, Issue 62
Abstract
The aim. The aim of the research was to analyze the recreational sports activity of pupils from an alpinie region of Austria considering gender and the size of the town. This explicitly includes motives, behavior, and attitude towards this activity and selected elements of physical education. Another aim was to determine the statistically significant correlations between several elements of physical education, leisure activity, and level of sports activity.Material and methods. The research was conducted in 2013 among 391 pupils from the last class of grammar schools in an alpine region in Austria. These were 96 boys and 103 girls from a large town (over 140,000 inhabitants), and 94 boys and 98 girls from a small town (7,000 inhabitants) using ATPA (Attitude Toward Physical Activity) by Kenyon [1, 2, 3], modified by the author of this research to check the motives of the recreational sports activity of the pupils. Furthermore, a questionnaire was used to check certain items of leisure and school sports activities. In addition, an attitude scale to assess the importance of physical education among other school subjects was also used.Results and conclusions. The most important motives of sports activity of the pupils are health, ascetic experience, and social experience. The boys prefer risk and ascetic experience, and the girls prefer health and aesthetic experience. The favorite leisure activities of the youth were meeting friends and practicing sport (second place among boys and third place among girls). Young people are physically very active, which is reflected in the frequency of doing sport and the large number of kinds of sport. This depends on the gender and size of the town. The most played sports by boys are soccer, cycling and swimming, and cycling, swimming and horse riding by girls. Extreme sports activities are not practiced, but they are desired activities. Thepupils get good marks for physical education, want more lessons, and in their opinion it is the favorite school subject. The majority of pupils practice sport after finishing school. It was determined that there are significant correlations between the male gender, practicing sport, and the level of sports activity.
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Zygmunt Sawicki
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