<abstract xml:lang="en" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><italic>Study aim</italic>: To examine the relationships between sport participation and sociometric status of adolescent youths.<italic>Material and methods</italic>: 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".<italic>Results</italic>: 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&lt;0.001) higher sociometric acceptance and sociometric status and lower sociometric rejection (p&lt;0.05) than the sedentary ones. However, no significant correlations were found between sport-engagement variables and the sociometric ones.<italic>Conclusions</italic>: 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.</abstract>

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.

Participation in sports and sociometric status of adolescents

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

Biomedical Human Kinetics

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Study aim: To examine the relationships between sport participation and sociometric status of adolescent youths.Material and methods: A group of 359 secondary...

Participation in sports and sociometric status of adolescents

Pubblicato online: 25 nov 2009

Pagine: 83 - 85

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/v10101-009-0021-y

Parole chiave
Sport participation, Sociometric status, Adolescents

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Participation in sports and sociometric status of adolescents

Pubblicato online: 25 nov 2009

Pagine: 83 - 85

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/v10101-009-0021-y

Parole chiaveSport participation, Sociometric status, Adolescents

This content is open access.

Parole chiave
Sport participation, Sociometric status, Adolescents