Les obstacles et les raisons de la pratique sportive chez les élèves francophones du secondaire
Youths sports participation in Canada reaches lower levels each year and tends to become lower for the adolescents as they grow in age, especially when they enter high school. This study examines the obstacles and reasons of sport participation and the enjoyment felt in sports and physical education classes. A quantitative method was used for this study. Data collection was conducted via an online survey. The convenience sample consists of 2001 francophone students from the first to the fifth year of high school in a Canadian and francophone school. Among these students, 367 were included as sport participants (sport participation of four hours per week minimum), 241 ex-sport participants and 142 non-sport participants, for a total of 750 students included in the analyzes. The results suggest that, in general, the most important source of obstacle seems to be time constraints, while the reasons that stood out as the most important referred to sports enjoyment dealing specifically with the feeling of pleasure associated with the activity itself. Results also suggest that the obstacles and reasons of sports participation seem to vary according to the type of sport, age and sex of the adolescent. Actual sport participants would experience higher levels of sports enjoyment than ex- sports participants in sports and in physical education classes. Girls were more likely than boys to consider the obstacles included in this study as barriers to sport. Barriers also appear to be more numerous with age. Sports enjoyment in physical education seems to be higher that sports enjoyment in sports. Our results also demonstrate the existence of a significant correlation between the sport enjoyment in physical education and in sports.
Sport Obstacles Genre Enjoyment Sport Reasons Obstacles Adolescents Gender Age Survey