The practice of sport and its influence on social values and behaviour education

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ID11435869
AuthorsJuan Francisco Canal‐Domínguez (Universidad de Oviedo), Juan F Canal-Domínguez (Universidad de Oviedo), Manuel Muñiz (0000-0001-8011-6991, Universidad de Oviedo, corresponding author), Javier Suárez Pandiello (0000-0003-1587-4045, Universidad de Oviedo), Javier Suárez-Pandiello (Universidad de Oviedo)
Year2017
Volume36
Issue5
Pages721-733
Publication date2017-09-03
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueLeisure Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0261-4367 • E-ISSN: 1466-4496
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/02614367.2016.1261180
OpenAlexW2558473617
LanguageEN
References cited20

‘Non-health effects’ of sports practice, as life satisfaction or non-cognitive education, are being adopted as aim in academic journals in several fields. This paper tries to contribute to this literature by focusing on the links between youth sports and the formation of values and social skills. To do this, we have made a survey, in which more than 5000 Spanish students were involved. They were asked about their sport activity, leisure preferences and socio-economic and family characteristics. We analyse separately athletes and non-athletes using Heckman’s two-step method. Therefore, we split the sample based on the likelihood of practising sports initially predicted by a probit analysis. Then, we separately estimate the non-cognitive educational outcomes of each group of individuals. The results of the first step show significant differences in gender, socio-economic and academic performance. In the second step, segregating the sample provides a number of highly significant effects: The cases of household income and videogames frequency play, among others. So, we have detected a different effect of increasing family income on the educational results (positive in the athlete and negative in the non-athlete group). In addition, a more substantial negative effect was observed in time devoted to videogames in the sample of athletes. These results can be used to implement educational policy measures, such as the promotion of sport in schools, or implementing awareness campaigns about responsible engagement in leisure time activities

Athletes · Cognition · Economics · Ordered probit · Pedagogy · Physical education · Political science · Politics · Probit · Promotion (chess · Sample (material · Medicine · Motivation and Self-Concept in Sports · Physical Education and Pedagogy · Psychology · Social Psychology · Sports and Physical Education Studies

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