AGGRESSION AND VALUE SYSTEMS IN FOOTBALL AND VOLLEYBALL FANS
Journal Title: Medycyna Sportowa - Year 2007, Vol 23, Issue 3
Abstract
Background. The aim of the study was to compare aggression in football and volleyball fans and to analyse their value systems. The main research thesis assumes that there are significant differences between value systems and agression levels in fans of the two disciplines.Material and methods. The study involved two groups of 30 football and 30 volleyball fans aged 17-24 years. The Allport-Vernon-Lindzey Study of Values questionnaire as well as the Buss and Durkee questionnaire were used.Results. The study confirmed common belief, that football fans were characterised with higher level of aggression than volleyball fans. The results showed significantly lower level of guilt feeling among football players, together with their most commonly accepted economic attitude and least popular religious attitude which, adversely, was most common among volleyball fans.Conclusions. The level of aggression in football fans is higher than in volleyball fans. The groups have different values, but the differences are not surprisingly large. A risk exists, that in course of increasing social problems, fans of other sport disciplines, including volleyball, could adopt football fans’ behaviours. Unnoticing this mechanism seems to be a great danger, especially considering vast number of consequences following destructive behaviour of sport fans. Sport is not exclusively based on competitors and their trainers, but it is a “social phenomenon”, meaning the public, which sport events are organised for and could not exist without. Sport is an important educative tool, especially for younger generations. It forms motivation for achievements, and the same helps to realise the needs for self-realisation and transgression. Sport means also game and “fair play” rules, which are meaningful values in social life. The values could be enirely devalued if fans’ behaviours are characterised by aggression, hooliganism and antisociality. That is why fan attitudes and widely understood physical education should be taught from the youngest age, as early as during sport rivalry at school. Further and more extended research in this field would be purposeful.
Authors and Affiliations
Marek Graczyk, Zdzisław Kobos, Monika Przeździecka, Katarzyna Sornat, Patrycja Sroka
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