Socialization Process of Adolescents? Sport Attitudes and Behavior through Important Agents

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Title:	Socialization Process of Adolescents? Sport Attitudes and Behavior through Important Agents
Authors:	Wei-Shan Chiu
Contributors:	Department of Leisure and Recreation Management
Keywords:	Adolescents;Socialization;Sport attitude
Date:	2009
Issue Date:	2009-11-16 08:06:35 (UTC+0)
Publisher:	Asia University
Abstract:	In Taiwan, people placed more emphasis on academic than sports performance. Also, because of the popularity of television and the prevalence of the Internet, many adolescents seemingly prefer static to dynamic leisure activities. Adolescents? attitudes toward sports might be influenced by the media, teachers, parents, peers and the community through a socialization process. This stirs the current research interest to understand the socialization process of adolescents? sport attitudes through important agents. Mixed methods of data collection were utilized including two small-group interviews, six individual interviews, and 93 questionnaires. Participants were recruited from two middle and senior high schools, and their classmates, peers, teachers and parents were then recruited. Each of the interviews took approximately between half an hour and one hour. In the interviews, the questions included: Why do you like or dislike sports? How often do you participate in sports? How do your parents, teachers, peers, schools, community and the media influence your attitudes toward sports? How do you influence your kids? (students?) participation in sports activities and attitudes toward sports? How do you see the impacts of the community or the media on your kids? or your students? sports participation and attitudes? Follow-up questions were added depending on different interview situations. As for the survey, the questionnaire asked participants about their sports behaviors, attitudes toward sports and sports knowledge, and the impacts of important agents on their sports attitudes. For the survey, the sample was consisted of adolescents from the two middle and senior high schools. Data were analyzed by a coding process and descriptive analysis of statistics. Cross-validation was used with data from interviews and questionnaires. The results showed that the media and peers wielded the most impacts on adolescents? sports attitudes than other important agents in the sports socialization process. It was revealed that adolescents felt easy to relax with the media. The remote controllers seemed to bring a feeling of satisfaction. Some respondents mentioned that they did not like sweating and could avoid the uncomfortable feeling when simply playing with the media. Some answered that they could learn the skills and knew information on TV or the Internet. In addition, because nowadays many families had only one child, peers similar to sibling became important. No matter that it was in school or after school, peers were always around and played an important role in the sports socialization process. As for the school, it seemed that teachers valued academic grades than sports performance. In school, the break time was too short to do any sports. Sport facilities were not diversified, or the facility capacity was limited for only a few people to play at the same time. As for the impacts of parents, although adolescents admired their parents as a sports role model, the parents might work late, did not concern with adolescents? sports participation or parents like teachers placed more emphasis on academic performance. The community seemed to have the lowest influence in the socialization process. Although some communities did provide some facilities for members to play together, some respondents said that they were concerned with the issues of safety and security. In addition, some adolescents replied that most of their time was in formal or cram schools but not in community. For suggestions, it might be possible for adolescents to increase participation in sports activities and develop more positive sports attitudes if teachers could put more emphasis on sports, parents could pay more attention in adolescent?s sports participation, and schools and community can improve sports environments. Key words: Adolescents, Sport attitude, Socialization process, Static leisure, Participation
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