Effect of Sports Activity on Sustainable Social Environment and Juvenile Aggression
Abstract:
Sport, as a social institution is one of the most critical extracurricular actives for an adolescent. At this point, it is believed that sports keep adolescents out of problems by teaching the rules and disciplines. But the effect of sports on adolescent is still controversial at the level of theoretical and empirical perspective in sociology and psychology. For this purpose, this study focused on the causal relationship among sports activity, social, environmental factors and juvenile aggression based on empirical research. This research used the Korean Children & Youth Panel Survey (KCYPS) which conducted the subjects of 2,378 adolescents by multi-stage stratified cluster sampling from 98 schools all over the country in South Korea. The date was analyzed by reliability analysis, correlation analysis, exploratory factor analysis, multipleregression, and path analysis with SPSS Ver. 23.0 Windows Program.
The results were as follows; Firstly, sports activity had a statistically significant effect on the sustainable social environment factors, teacher and friend relationship. Secondly, it was found that sustainable social environment was a statistically significant effect on juvenile aggression toward others and self. Lastly, sports activity showed not a direct impact on juvenile aggression toward others and self. However, sports activity has affected juvenlie aggression through a sustainable social environment. In detail, although sports activity was not directly affected on aggression, more sports activity could positively improve the level of teacher and friends relationship then reduce both the aggression toward others and self.
Keywords:
sustainable social environment, sports activity, juvenile aggression
pages:
111-114
Year:
2019
Published in:
2nd Eurasian Conference on Educational Innovation 2019
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