e-Pedagogium 2017, 17(4):119-137 | DOI: 10.5507/epd.2017.058

Urban-Rural Contrasts in Attitudes, Motives and Sport Preferences in Adolescents

Michal Kudláček, Martin Sigmund, Jana Kvintová, Tomáš Junek
Mgr. Michal Kudláček, Ph.D., PhDr. Dr. Martin Sigmund, Ph.D., Mgr. Tomáš Junek, Faculty of Physical Culture, Palacký University Olomouc, Tř. Míru 117, 771 11 Olomouc, Czech Republic, E-mail: michal.kudlacek@upol.cz, martin.sigmund@upol.cz, tomas.junek@upol.cz
PhDr. Jana Kvintová, Ph.D., Faculty of Education, Palacký University Olomouc, Žižkovo nám. 5, 771 40 Olomouc, Czech Republic, E-mail: jana.kvintova@upol.cz

This study focuses on the attitudes, motivation for physical activity (PA), structure of sport preferences and physical activity of students of two selected high schools (rural area; urban area). There were several questionnaires employed in this study: Dimension of Attitude for Children and Youth (DIPO-J), Motivation for Physical Activity Questionnaire (MPAM-R) and Sport Preferences Questionnaire. The research group (in total 300 respondents) consisted of 150 students from a rural area and 150 students from an urban area. According to the results, adolescents at both the schools have moderately positive attitudes toward physical education. The most frequently chosen attitude was the one to performance, health and fitness in both girls and boys. The results of the sport preferences survey indicate that the adolescents, in terms of different types of physical activity, preferred most the category "Individual Sports", in which they placed swimming on the top. In terms of evaluation of PA, we found that boys are more physically active than girls are. After comparing the PA between the rural and urban areas, the respondents from the urban area have scored better in the category "Total PA" than the respondents from the rural area.

Keywords: physical education, health, lifestyle, DIPO-J, MPAM-R, sport preferences

Published: December 1, 2017  Show citation

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Kudláček, M., Sigmund, M., Kvintová, J., & Junek, T. (2017). Urban-Rural Contrasts in Attitudes, Motives and Sport Preferences in Adolescents. e-Pedagogium, 17(4), 119-137. doi: 10.5507/epd.2017.058
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