Selected Aspects of Sports: Recreational Activity of German School Students

Abstract

This work focuses on empirical research regarding the sports-recreational activities of school students living in the Alpine region of Germany. The main objective of the work is to examine the conditions of participation in sports activities depending on such criteria as: forms, intensity, motives, manners, places and possibilities for practicing sports, including the gender of the participants and their environmental conditions (large city, small town). 387 persons at the age of 18 (M = 18.48 ± 0.31 years) from technical colleges and high schools in Bavaria were surveyed. The following research tools were used in the study: - a scale of attitudes aimed at examining the motives for undertaking sports-recreational activity by the examined school students, - a questionnaire regarding attitudes and behavior towards free time sports-recreational activity. The collected material was subjected to mathematical and statistical analysis using the ROC method (Receiver Operating Characteristic). Own research has shown a high level of sport-recreational activity related mainly to such aspects as the frequency of practicing sports, the number of sports disciplines practiced and different places for practicing sports.