Abstracto

ATTITUDES TOWARD PHYSICAL EDUCATION OF SCHOOL GOING ADOLESCENTS IN WEST BENGAL

Dr.Sabyasachi Chatterjee

The aim of this study was to investigate attitudes toward physical education and sports of secondary school students. The participants were 98 female and 175male students from secondary schools education aged14 to 17. A total of 273 students voluntarily participated in this study. The Attitudes towards Physical Education Scale (ATPES) was applied. ANOVA was used to determine differences in attitude toward PE and between girls and boys. In order to compare according to geographical location wise (urban and rural) Attitude scores of school going adolescents ANOVA was again conducted. The study revealed that participants in the study have positive attitudes toward physical education and, when compared, there is no significant difference between the attitudes of school going boys and girls. So gender played no such role in formation of attitudes toward physical education in this regard. So also in the present study irrespective of male and female of different geographic location (rural and urban) school going adolescents exhibited a positive attitude towards physical education.