The role and Sporting students importance of sport in students lives at the University of Debrecen Klara Kovacs I. PhD-student Educational and Cultural Doctoral Programme University of Debrecen Kovacs.klarika87@gmail.com
Research topic and Method Sport and athletes at the University of Debrecen Campus-life Research (OTKA-81858) Center for Higher Education Research and Development (CHERD) The impact of Tertiary Education on Regional Development (TERD)
The problem and its relevance half of high school students, one-third of university students, but only a quarter of young people between 25-30 do sports regularly The university / college education is the last chance for most of the students to submit themselves to acquire the positive attitude related to healthy lifestyle and regular sports, before they get into the labor market
To introduce Target (1) the most important function of sport in the society (and at University of Debrecen) (2) the sporting habits of students (3) the most important social-cultural characteristics, which may affect that they do sport or not (4) whether there is a difference between athletes and non-athletes in terms of number of friends
Definition of sports European Sport for All Charter: sports are every form of activities, which develop the physical, mental performance and social relationships. It can be done alone or in community Have you been a member of sport team/sport gym during the course of studying at the university?
The social functions of sports 1. Health care, prevention, recreation function 2. Cultural, value, moral function 3. Diplomatic, economic and infrastructural function 4. Community creating and social function
The most important features of Sports life of The University of Debrecen The 10th of university s regulation sets out the obligations of students in physical education. Department of Sport: 1. Short-term goal: to organize students compulsory and extracurricular physical education once a week at the university 2. Long-term goal: improving the students sate of health and physical condition DEAC
Hypotheses 1. There is a difference between male and female students in terms of proportion of sport. 2. The students relation to sport is affected by the families social and cultural status. 3. The permanent residence impacts that a student does sport or not at the university. 4. Students who take part in sports activities have more friends than those who do not.
The results of the research 28,8% 6,6% Do/Did not sport activities 31,6% 33,0% Sport activities within the university Sport activities outside the university Sport activities within and outside the university 1.Figure: The percentage of students sporting preferences
100 80 60 40 20 75,2 64,3 Do sport activity 0 Men Women 2. Figure: Sport willingness by gender
20 18 16 14 12 10 8 6 4 2 0 7,27 6,48 Average score of fam ilies' finacial situation Do sport activity Do not sport activity 3. Figure: Mean of the family's financial background of the athlete and non-athlete students
100 80 60 40 20 63,8 51,7 66,1 67,4 72,7 72,1 Do sport activity (father education level) Do sport activity (mother education level) 0 Primary education level Secondary education level Higher education level 4. Figure: Percentage ratio of sporting students among the fathers and mothers education level groups
100% 80% 45,8 29,1 City 60% 40% 20% 0% 34,2 19,9 Do/did sport activity 37,8 33,1 Do not/did not sport activity Town Village 5. Figure: Distribution of sporting students according to the extent of settlement, in percentage
Do/ did spor t acti vity Do/ did not Do/ did can you discuss the studyrelated proble ms with? How many friends can you discu ss the priva te probl ems with? can you fill your leisure time togethe r? can you discus s your plans for the future with? would visit/p honed you in case of illness? 4,46 2,32 2,97 2,97 2,56 4,74 2,83 3,83 3,56 3,20 1.Table: the average number of friends in different dimensions of friendship among the sporting and non-sporting students
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