Values Orientation in Sport

Character Building

· The most common virtue attributed to sport participation.

·  Development of socially desirable personality traits such as integrity, responsibility wholesomeness, maturity, honesty, dependability & Cleanliness

Discipline

·  Means obedience to authority

·  Sport ethic participation generates self-discipline & social Control

Competition

·  Another view of the sport values is in essence.

·  LIFE IS STRUGGLE THAT ONLY THE FITTEST SERVICE

·  Sport competitive spirit, develop tomorrow leaders

·  Competitive behavior is unavoidable

·  Not only sport but many varieties of games are structured in this fashion.

·  Competition procedures excitement among participant

·  People compete because it excites them

·  Social comparison theory :- individual engage in an activity to compare themselves with other

Physical Fitness

·  Much confusion surrounding physical fitness because people have different meaning in mind:

a.  Big Muscles or beautiful body

b.  Suppleness

c.  How strong you are, how far & how fast you can run or how many laps & push up you can do.

·       Exercise Physiologist identify 5 different Fitness:

                                                         i.            Cardio Respiratory

                                                        ii.            Body composition

                                                       iii.            Muscular strength

                                                       iv.            muscular endurance

                                                        v.            Flexibility

Mental fitness

·  Games lubricates the body & wind

·  Often pressured to have direct educational benefit, is another frequently mentioned manifestation of sport participation

Religiosity

·   Sport and religion have been interfaced for entries

·   Sport contained demands characteristic of religiosity within & severed as a perversion for life

Nationalism

·  Sport reinforces nationalism & a patriotism form of centuries is the practice of judging alien cultural practices by the standard of one’s own culture.

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