Values and attitudes of adolescents toward sport

Abstract

The article presents the results of a survey that took place in Romania and the analysis of the answers within the questionnaires demonstrates that sport is practiced more by boys than by girls, more by students raised in families where education is important than by students whose families believe education should be done in school, and more by students in central elementary schools than by students who study at peripheries. Also, the data show that students find of sports in general give more importance to instrumental and to final values within the Rokeach value questionnaire, in comparison to the students less interested in this activity .

Key words:

attitudes, sport, movement, adolescence, secondary school.