Participation in sports and sociometric status of adolescents

• Authors: Aleksandar Gadžić , Igor Vučković
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

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.

Keywords

EN

Sport participation; Sociometric status; Adolescents

• Publisher: Versita
• Journal: Biomedical Human Kinetics
• Year: 2009
• Volume: 1
• Pages: 83-85

Dates

published

1 - 1 - 2009

online

25 - 11 - 2009

Contributors

author

Aleksandar Gadžić

• Academy of Football Belgrade, Serbia

author

Igor Vučković

• Faculty of Physical Education and Sport, University in Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/v10101-009-0021-y