Values in Children's Sport: Spontaneously Expressed Values Among Young Athletes

1 September 1995

journal article
research article
Published by SAGE Publications in International Review for the Sociology of Sport

Vol. 30 (3-4) , 337-350
https://doi.org/10.1177/101269029503000307

Abstract

Values are considered to be a major influence on sport behaviour. The values underlying sports participation among young (12-16 yrs) football and tennis players (n=93) were examined by discussion of sport-specific moral dilemmas. Eighteen sport-relevant values which showed good correspondence with recent formulations of value structures were identified. Moral dilemmas in sport are explained as a conflict between competing types of values. It is suggested that examination of the values of significant others may explain value development in young athletes.

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