Sportspersonship in school and extracurricular sports

Abstract

This paper examines whether doing extracurricular sports increases sportspersonship based on three samples of primary and lower secondary education (aged 10 to 15) students in a neighbourhood of the city of Barcelona. The first two samples did extracurricular sports. The third sample, which was a control group, only did curricular sport. The sportspersonship assessment tool was the Multidimensional Sportspersonship Orientation Scale (MSOS-20). Our findings indicate that extracurricular sports generate multiple values linked to sportspersonship (effort, etc.) to a greater extent than curricular sport. However, the competitive spirit of extracurricular sports decreases in sportspersonship values such as impartiality.