Kinesiology, Vol. 33 No. 1, 2001.
Preliminary communication
Influence of some aspects of parental socio-economic status on the attitude towards sports
Mojca Doupona
; Faculty of Sport, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
Abstract
The article is based on a research which covered 2,760 mothers and 2,760 fathers (total of 5,520 subjects), parents of Slovenian primary school children. The objective of the presented article was to investigate the characteristics of the socio-demographic structure of the parents of primary school children in Slovenia with regard to gender and participation in sports activity. This research is the first study of the socio-demographic space in sports and it was done by applying the LISREL (Linear Structural Relations) model in order to explain the direct and the indirect effects of five variables (owning a car, a movable property some real estate, age, education and number of children) on the variables of the quantity of exercising done.
The influence of attitudes towards sports on the actual participation in a sports activity is in mothers slightly smaller than in fathers. Owning a car explains more significantly the participation in a sports activity in fathers than in mothers. The owning of a material property has also a larger causal effect on the sports activities participation of fathers than of mothers. Younger mothers are less actively involved in sports, and older fathers are also less active in sports. The more children the mothers have, the less active they are in sports. The attitudes of mothers and fathers towards sports are associated with the level of their education, but also with the level of education of the spouse and finally with the economic status of the family. The better the living conditions of an individual, the more positive his or her attitudes are towards sports, which consequently also means a more active/regular participation in sports.
Keywords
socio-economic status, sport, parents, LISREL model
Hrčak ID:
257050
URI
Publication date:
4.5.2001.
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