The article aims to analyze the perceptions of student-athletes about learning life skills through sport, including identify the goals and strategies used by teachers/coaches during practices. This study included 61 high school athletes (16.15±0.79) and six teachers/coaches of team´s finalists of Jogos Estudantis Cuiabanos in 2018. The instruments used: Life Skills Scale for Sport – LSSS and semi-structure interview about Positive Youth Development (PYD) through sport. To analysis quantitative data, the ANOVA of repeated measures and the student´s t test were used, and thematic analysis for qualitative data. When compared life skills dimensions, teamwork and goal setting presented higher levels (p<0.05). Teachers/coaches seek to promote life skills dimensions to prevent risk behaviors. According to their perceptions, whether students/athletes as well teachers/coaches, there are possible life skills transfer in sport context, specially teamwork and goal setting. This study indicates that teachers/coaches use sport to promote active citizenship of their students/athletes.
This investigation aimed to analyze the perceptions of young practitioners of Olympic and Paralympic modalities about the development of life skills through sport, according to sex, age group and time of practice. The sample included 147 young athletes from Olympic (n = 57) and Paralympic (n = 90) modalities, with an average age of 13.14 ± 1.37 years and practice time of 7.35 ± 4.83 years. The instruments used were: a sociodemographic questionnaire and the Life Skills Scale for Sport (P-LSSS). Data analysis was performed using the Kolmogorov-Smirnov tests, independent t and Pearson correlation (p <0.05). The most experienced practitioners obtained higher values in the dimensions of leadership and communication (p <0.05). When comparing the sexes, the boys obtained a greater perception of learning in the variables: goal setting, social skills and emotional skills (p <0.05). When comparing the modalities, Olympic sports athletes showed significant differences in teamwork, problem solving, emotional skills, leadership, time control and communication (p <0.05). It is concluded, based on the conception of young athletes, that sport can contribute to the learning of positive characteristics, with sports practice in the long run being one of the possible factors that result in the success of this process.
O objetivo deste estudo foi comparar as necessidades psicológicas básicas (NPB) e a percepção de desenvolvimento de habilidades para vida (HV) em atletas universitários. Participaram 136 atletas universitários (21,78±3,37 anos) participantes dos Jogos Universitários Brasileiros 2019. Os instrumentos utilizados foram a Escala de HV para o Esporte e a Escala de Satisfação das BPN para o Esporte. Para a análise dos dados utilizou-se os testes de Kolmogorov-Smirnorv e o t independente (p
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