Social Acceptance in Physical Education and the Regular Classroom: Perceived Motor Competency and Frequency and Type of Sports Participation
Abstract
:1. Introduction
1.1. Correlates of Social Acceptance in Different School Contexts
1.2. Perceived Physical Competence
1.3. Sports Participation
1.4. This Study
2. Materials and Methods
2.1. Participants
2.2. Instrumentation
2.3. Procedure
2.4. Data Analysis
3. Results
3.1. Descriptive Statistics
3.2. Overall Relations
3.3. Relations Separated by Type of Sports
4. Discussion
4.1. Perceived Physical Competence
4.2. Sports Participation
4.3. Individual vs. Team Sport Players
4.4. Implications
4.5. Limitations
5. Conclusions
Supplementary Materials
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
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Total | Individual Sports (n = 66) | Team Sports (n = 94) | ||||
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Mean (SD) | Min.–Max. | Mean (SD) | Min.–Max. | Mean (SD) | Min.–Max. | |
Perceived motor competence | 3.11 (0.45) | 1.96–4.00 | 2.99 (0.46) | 2.04–4.00 | 3.24 (0.42) | 1.96–4.00 |
Sport frequency | 2.27 (1.29) | 0–7 | 1.83 (1.17) | 0–7 | 3.01 (0.79) | 1–5 |
Social preference PE | 0.00 (1.55) | −4.18–3.13 | −0.05 (1.62) | −4.18–2.95 | 0.11 (1.52) | −3.54–3.13 |
Social preference classroom | 0.00 (1.58) | −4.42–3.34 | 0.08 (1.73) | −4.42–3.34 | −0.01 (1.50) | −3.70–3.01 |
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de Bruijn, A.G.M.; van der Wilt, F. Social Acceptance in Physical Education and the Regular Classroom: Perceived Motor Competency and Frequency and Type of Sports Participation. Children 2023, 10, 568. https://doi.org/10.3390/children10030568
de Bruijn AGM, van der Wilt F. Social Acceptance in Physical Education and the Regular Classroom: Perceived Motor Competency and Frequency and Type of Sports Participation. Children. 2023; 10(3):568. https://doi.org/10.3390/children10030568
Chicago/Turabian Stylede Bruijn, Anne G. M., and Femke van der Wilt. 2023. "Social Acceptance in Physical Education and the Regular Classroom: Perceived Motor Competency and Frequency and Type of Sports Participation" Children 10, no. 3: 568. https://doi.org/10.3390/children10030568