An Investigation of Organized Youth Sports Influences on the Children's Mental Development

本研究的目的是阐明体育活动对儿童心理发展的影响。为了达到这一目的，本研究进行了两次调查，第一次调查由学校教师对2023名小学男生和女生进行问卷调查。问卷内容包括：体育游戏输赢态度量表、体育游戏行为规范态度量表、体育课态度量表、自我概念语义差异量表、Yatabe-Guiford人格问卷。在第二次调查中，采用与第一次调查相同的方式对248名男孩和女孩进行相同的问卷调查，数据采用方差分析后进行多重比较分析，并考察了参与者与非参与者和退休参与者之间的关系。结果表明，参与者组在这些量表上的得分高于其他组。有人认为，在这种情况下，有组织的青少年体育项目对参与者起到了选择的作用。

The purpose of this investigation was to clarify the influences of sports activity on the cildren's mental development. In order to achive this purpose, two time investigation were made.In the first investigation, several questionnaires were administered by school teachers to 2023 boys and girls in elementary school. The contents of these questionnaires were as follows ; the attitude scale for win and loss in sports games, the attitude scale for behavioral norms in sports games, the attitude scale for Physical Education lesson, the semantic-differential scale of self concepts, and the Yatabe-Guiiford personality inventory. In the second investigation, the same questionnaire were administered to the same 248 boys and girls by the same way as used in the first investigation.Data were analyzed by multiple comparison after ANOVA, and relationships among the participants, non-participants and retired participants were examined.The result indicated that the participants group had higher scores in these scales than other groups. It was suggested that the organized youth sports programs in this case fulfilled a select-function to the participants.