Middle school students' views about physical education: A comparative study between four European countries

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dc.contributor.authorPeriæ, Antonio
dc.contributor.authorRodrigues Sampaio, António
dc.contributor.authorPankowska-Jurczyk, Katarzyna
dc.contributor.authorBatutis, Olegas
dc.contributor.authorCosta, João
dc.contributor.authorOnofre, Marcos
dc.contributor.authorMartins, João
dc.date.accessioned2021-03-11T14:19:06Z
dc.date.available2021-03-11T14:19:06Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.date.updated2021-02-23T23:00:36Z
dc.description.abstractComparable and cross-national research is needed to examine students' views on the role of physical education (PE) inpromoting active and healthy lifestyles, particularly in non-English speaking contexts. Thus, the present study aims to investigate and compare the views of middle school students from four European countries towards PE, considering cross-national and gender variables. = 14.3 ± 0.9 years) from a public secondary school in Croatia, Lithuania, Poland and Portugal, answered to a questionnaire about their: (a) PE attitude, (b) PE importance, (c) PE mainaim, and (d) perception of competence in PE. ANOVA and Student t-test were used to compare students' views across countries, and to compare boys' and girls' views within each country. Overall, results show that the students' views towards PE were mainly positive but important differences were found across the students from the four European countries. In all countries, boys have a more positive attitude, gave more importance to PE and perceived themselves as more competent than girls. Regardless of the sociocultural context, this study suggests that there is a cross-national need to further explore the nature of the differences found and increase young girl's attitudestowards PE. Additionally, more comparative studies are needed with a broad range of sociocultural contexts to assess the extent to whichthis type of differences is present.Keywords: physical education, adolescents, attitude, perception of competence, comparative education gave more importance to PE and perceived themselves as more competent than girls. Regardless of the sociocultural context, this study suggests that there is a cross-national need to further explore the nature of the differences found and increase young girl's attitudestowards PE. Additionally, more comparative studies are needed with a broad range of sociocultural contexts to assess the extent to whichthis type of differences is present.Keywords: physical education, adolescents, attitude, perception of competence, comparative education gave more importance to PE and perceived themselves as more competent than girls. Regardless of the sociocultural context, this study suggests that there is a cross-national need to further explore the nature of the differences found and increase young girl's attitudestowards PE. Additionally, more comparative studies are needed with a broad range of sociocultural contexts to assess the extent to whichthis type of differences is present.en
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dc.identifier.citationPeriæ, A., Rodrigues Sampaio, A., Pankowska-Jurczyk, K., Batutis, O., Costa, J., Onofre, M. and Martins, J. (2021) 'Middle school students' views about physical education: A comparative study between four European countries', Retos, 31 (1º semestre), pp. 369-402.en
dc.identifier.endpage402en
dc.identifier.issued31en
dc.identifier.journaltitleRetosen
dc.identifier.startpage369en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/11134
dc.identifier.volume2021 (1º semestre)en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherFederaión Española de Asociaciones de Docentes de Educación Física (FEADEF)en
dc.relation.urihttps://dialnet.unirioja.es/servlet/articulo?codigo=7597031
dc.rights© Copyright: Federación Española de Asociaciones de Docentes de Educación Física (FEADEF)en
dc.subjectPhysical educationen
dc.subjectAdolescentsen
dc.subjectAttitudeen
dc.subjectPerception of competenceen
dc.subjectComparative educationen
dc.titleMiddle school students' views about physical education: A comparative study between four European countriesen
dc.typeArticle (peer-reviewed)en
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