What is it about?
Participation of adolescents in sports is considered as contributing to better group status and acceptance by schoolmates. In this study, we tried to assess the relationships between sport participation and the sociometric status of adolescents at school and to compare those engaged in sports with their sedentary mates with respect to sociometric indices.
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The sport-active adolescents scored significantly higher sociometric acceptance and sociometric status and lower sociometric rejection than the sedentary ones. However, no significant correlations were found between sport-engagement variables and the sociometric ones, hence, further study is required to consider both within-school and outer factors contributing to the sports issue.
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The studied cohort was fairly homogenous with respect to the school environment and sociometric status might have been of importance. The obtained results were concordant with the previous reports that consistently linked peer acceptance to sport participation.
Dr Aleksandar J Gadzic
Univerzitet Singidunum
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This page is a summary of: Participation in sports and sociometric status of adolescents, Biomedical Human Kinetics, January 2009, De Gruyter,
DOI: 10.2478/v10101-009-0021-y.
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