Participation in sports and sociometric status of adolescents

Abstract

Participation in sports and sociometric status of adolescents Study aim: To examine the relationships between sport participation and sociometric status of adolescent youths. Material and methods: A group of 359 secondary school students from central Serbia (143 male and 216 female) aged 16 - 19 years participated in the study. The subjects were given questionnaires pertaining to their participation in sports and sociometric relations, especially "work with" and "interact with". Results: In total, about 23% of subjects were actively engaged in sports at various levels: local (11%), regional (8%), national (3%) and international (2 subjects), the others were classified as sedentary. The sport-active subjects scored significantly (p<0.001) higher sociometric acceptance and sociometric status and lower sociometric rejection (p<0.05) than the sedentary ones. However, no significant correlations were found between sport-engagement variables and the sociometric ones. Conclusions: The presented results can be regarded as preliminary only and call for conducting the study on a larger cohort and to include more psychosocial variables.

Sociometric Status of Adolescents and Sport Orientation: Case Study

“…There are indicators that school achievement of adolescents is not conditioned by doing sports, but that students who actively do sports achieve better results in school, which opens the door for implementing new research and discovering factors that lead to better results of athlete students (Gadzic & Milojevic, 2009). It has also been shown that doing sports does not affect social relationships and that in some cases sociometrical status is not conditioned by doing sports (Edim & Odok, 2015;Gadzic & Vuckovic, 2009). Our results have shown that activity in P.E.…”

Motor abilities of primary school female students from urban and rural area

“…Promene u motoričkim sposobnostima odvijaju se u određenim socioekonomskim uslovima koji su karakteristični za životnu sredinu pojedinca ili grupe ljudi, a koje čini skup kulturnih, materijalnih, urbanih i drugih faktora. Društveni standard, kulturni nivo sredine, mesto i uloga fizičkog vaspitanja 132 u njoj, socijalni status roditelja, socijalni status učenika, samo su neki od činilaca socijalne sredine koji mogu svojim posrednim delovanjem uticati na razvoj motoričkih sposobnosti populacije te sredine i na stepen angažovanja u sportskim aktivnostima (Gadžić i Vučković, 2009;Matić, Kuljić i Maksimović, 2010).…”

The Power Structure Relationship Handball Athletes using Sociometry

“…Sports clubs are one of the places where the process of activities outside the formal education process is carried out [1]. The sports club is also a place for athletes to develop their abilities in technical, physical, and even social skills [2].…”