Abstract des Autors

As our society is subject to changes, knowledge about the learners’ attitudes towards physical education lessons may help to address the problems of physical education at school and arrange leisure activities more effectively. The research hypothesis: the attitudes of physically active 15–16-year-old schoolchildren towards physical education lessons will differ with respect to gender: the male schoolchildren approach will be more positive than female schoolchildren’s approach. Research aim was to investigate the attitudes of physically active 15–16-year-old schoolchildren towards physical education lessons with respect to gender. The survey was conducted at Kaunas secondary schools in spring, 2015. Questionnaire data of 300 physically active 15–16-year-old students (50 boys and girls) were analyzed. It was determined that both boys and girls appreciated the characteristics of physical education teacher during physical education lessons: answer options “strongly agree” and “agree” were noted by 81.3% of boys and 84.0% of girls. Schoolchildren also enjoyed their participation in physical education lessons (85.3 and 70.0%, respectively) and variety of activities during physical education lessons (71.4% and 62.6%, respectively). The statistically significant difference was identified between answers of boys and girls (p < 0.05) that physical education lessons appeared to be a good break while learning other subjects, were enjoyable and motivating to achieve results as well as included the variety of physical activities. The analysis of answers of both genders to the question what they do not like during physical education lessons demonstrated that both boys and girls did not like that they had to change their clothes (answer options “strongly agree” and “agree” noted by 55.4% of boys and 37.3% of girls) and that there were no conditions to have a shower after physical education lessons (44.0% and 51.3%, respectively). The research revealed that the attitudes of physically active 15–16-year-old schoolchildren towards physical education lessons were favorable, boys’ attitude was found to be more positive than that of girls’: they appreciated that physical education lessons was like a break while learning other subjects, they enjoyed activity and an opportunity to express themselves as well as they liked the variety of activities during physical education lessons more than girls (p < 0.05).