Title Moksleivių sportavimo ir fizinio aktyvumo laisvalaikiu sąsajos su socialiniais ekonominiais veiksniais /
Another Title Links of pupils' sports and physical activity at their leisure time with social economic factors.
Authors Šukys, Saulius ; Bagdonas, Antanas
DOI 10.33607/bjshs.v1i64.659
Full Text Download
Is Part of Ugdymas. Kūno kultūra. Sportas.. Kaunas : Lietuvos kūno kultūros akademija. 2007, Nr. 1 (64), p. 44-50.. ISSN 1392-5644
Keywords [eng] pupils’ physical activity at their leisure time ; participation in sports ; social economic status of family
Abstract [eng] The aim of the study was to establish the links of pupils’ sports and physical activity with their social economic factors. Pupils’ physical activity and the social economic factors of their families were established using a questionnaire. Physical activity of pupils was evaluated in regard to the singleness of their activities, i. e. active participation in physical activities and sports. Social economic situations of families were judged by parents’ jobs, education and pupils’ living conditions. The independent random sample of the research represented the population of the pupils from the sixth, the eighth and the eleventh grades in Kaunas schools. It consisted of 1162 (534 boys and 628 girls) schoolchildren from Kaunas secondary schools and gymnasiums: 302 pupils from the sixth grades, 342 from the eighth grades, 284 from the eleventh grades and 234 gymnasium third year pupils. The questionnaire survey did not reveal any considerable links between pupils’ age and their participation in sports. There were no differences of the participation in sports between the girls and the boys, either. According to the research data only about one fi fth of pupils were engaged in sports. Pupils’ age was more linked to their leisure activities, i. e. the sixth grade pupils were more active than the eleventh grade pupils. Analogical decreasing tendency of physical activity with age remained comparing the pupils by gender, i. e. boys were more active in their leisure time activities than girls in the sixth (p < 0.001) and the eighth (p < 0.01) grades. The social economic status of families had little infl uence on pupils’ participation in sports. There were no statistical differences between pupils’ participation in sport and their parents’ occupation, education and living conditions, but the family status conditioned pupils’ physical activity at their leisure time. However, this relationship was diverse in different age groups. It was established that the eleventh grade students whose both parents had higher education were more physically active at their leisure time (p < 0.05). But if we compare pupils’ physical activity at the leisure time to their living conditions, we see that the eighth grade students were different, i. e. better-off students were more active than their peers who were hard up (p < 0.01). Research results showed that the occupation of pupils’ parents had weak relation to their physical activity regardless of their age. Thus, we could conclude that in the future studies we should evaluate parents’ occupation and its relation with family income when we analyze factors related to pupils’ physical activity at their leisure time.
Published Kaunas : Lietuvos kūno kultūros akademija
Type Journal article
Language Lithuanian
Publication date 2007