%0 Journal Article
%T Participation in sports and sociometric status of adolescents
%A Aleksandar Gad i
%A Ph.D.
%A Igor Vu kovi
%J Biomedical Human Kinetics
%@ 2080-2234
%D 2009
%I 
%R 10.2478/v10101-009-0021-y
%X Study aim: To examine the relationships between sport participation and sociometric status of adolescent youths. Material and methods: A group of 359 secondary school students from central Serbia (143 male and 216 female) aged 16 - 19 years participated in the study. The subjects were given questionnaires pertaining to their participation in sports and sociometric relations, especially "work with" and "interact with". Results: In total, about 23% of subjects were actively engaged in sports at various levels: local (11%), regional (8%), national (3%) and international (2 subjects), the others were classified as sedentary. The sport-active subjects scored significantly (p<0.001) higher sociometric acceptance and sociometric status and lower sociometric rejection (p<0.05) than the sedentary ones. However, no significant correlations were found between sport-engagement variables and the sociometric ones. Conclusions: The presented results can be regarded as preliminary only and call for conducting the study on a larger cohort and to include more psychosocial variables.
%K Sport participation
%K Sociometric status
%K Adolescents
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