Construction of Scale for Evaluation of Attitude Towards Alpine Skiing

Cigrovski, Vjekoslav; Božić, Igor; Prlenda, Nikola; Matković, Bojan; Vlašić, Jadranka

doi:10.5550/sp.4.2012.012

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“…This particular questionnaire was constructed to determine the alpine ski novices' attitude towards alpine skiing. Measured metric characteristics of the questionnaire enable its use in testing attitude towards alpine skiing (Cigrovski, Božić, Prlenda, Matković, & Vlašić, 2012). The claims in the questionnaire were grouped into several categories and related to attitude towards skiing as a recreational sport, mountains during winter months, cold, physical activity in the open space, fear of injury, fear of speed, and finally fear of heights and slope.…”

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How Through Understanding of Alpine Ski Novices’ Attitudes Towards Alpine Skiing Make the Alpine Ski School More Efficaceous

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Prlenda³

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The assumption of this study was that attitude towards alpine skiing and expectations of ski novices affect the level of achieved alpine ski knowledge. So, the aim was to determine correlation between alpine ski novices' attitude towards alpine skiing before the learning process and level of acquired knowledge after completion of structured alpine ski school program. 112 alpine ski novices (33 females and 79 males) participated in the study. All were tested on 26-item scale questionnaire for attitude evaluation and were included in 10-days alpine ski school program. After completion of ski school, all participants demonstrated eight elements of alpine ski technique which was used as a measure of acquired ski knowledge. Results showed statistically significant correlation between acquired alpine ski knowledge and attitude of ski novices towards alpine skiing (r = .36). The most statistically significant correlation was determined between the level of learned parallel turn and attitude towards skiing (r = .42). Our results point to importance of attitude towards alpine skiing and alpine ski learning.

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