A Study of Taipei high school students’ passion and involvement for basketball

• Main Authors: Jyue-Ju Chu, 朱玨茹
• Other Authors: Wen-Tseng Chu
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2011
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/85677617532366813605

碩士 === 國立臺灣師範大學 === 運動與休閒管理研究所 === 100 === The purpose of the research is to investigate the passion and involvement of playing basketball between the basketball association students and the sportily talented students for basketball (including physical education classes) in senior high school. The research is performed by using questionnaires. The data are collected by surveying three hundred sixty nine basketball association students and three hundred and two sportily talented students for basketball (including physical education classes) in senior high school during April 2012. The scale is a developed research instrument by referring to the Vallerand (2003) and Chiung-Huang Li (2007) passion scale in Chinese edition and the McIntrye (1989) involvement scale. The research results lead to five conclusions. First, they show a medium to high level of passion on basketball activities between the basketball association students and the sportily talented students for basketball. Both groups have more harmonious passion than obsessive passion. Therefore, high school students tend to be more harmonious passion on basketball activities. Secondly, no matter what model or perspective is, the passion on basketball activities of sportily talented students for basketball is higher than basketball association students. Thirdly, they show a medium to high level of involvement on basketball activities between the basketball association students and the sportily talented students for basketball. For involvement on basketball activities, attraction is greater than centrality and centrality is greater than self-expression for both the basketball association students and the sportily talented students for basketball. Also, the involvement on basketball activities of sportily talented students for basketball is higher than basketball association students. Fourthly, there are significant differences between different gender and basketball position in the passion and involvement of playing basketball for the basketball association students and the sportily talented students for basketball. Fifthly, a positive correlation exists between the passion and involvement on basketball activities for both basketball association students and the sportily talented students.