Abstract

The effects of basketball and field-hockey training on the self-concepts of 12-14 year old and 16-18 year old secondary school males and females were studied. Subjects, 72 experimental and 72 control, were selected by a stratified (intact class) random technique. Self concepts and abilities in the two sports were measured twice (before and after training) among the subjects. Only the experimental groups were exposed to the 10-week skill training in which subjects met for 45 minutes a day twice weekly. Post hoc analysis by simple main effect was computed in areas of significant differences. Results show that trained subjects scored significantly higher in total positive self, self-satisfaction, physical self, personal self and social self. Boys in the late adolescent group scored significantly higher than the girls in the same age brackets in total positive self, self satisfaction and physical self measures. Also the early adolescent females perceived themselves significantly more positively with reference to the self-satisfaction subscale than did their late adolescent counterparts. The presence of significant differences between the two age groups in which the early adolescents scored higher than the late adolescents in social self subscale affected both sex groups. Results give credibility to the hypothetical theory that skill training and ability in sports tend to influence the development of positive self concept and have implications for the involvement of regular organized physical education in schools. Verf.-Referat (gekuerzt)