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Title

Predictors of Physical Education Class and Leisure-Time Preferences of Teenagers Who Are Deaf or Hard of Hearing.

Authors

Kurková, Petra; Langová, Kateřina

Abstract

The researchers' primary purpose was to determine which independent predictors affect the probability that physical education (PE) will be popular among teenagers who are deaf or hard of hearing; that they will consider PE important and undemanding; that they will feel comfortable with PE; and whether they will be disappointed when a PE class is canceled. Three predictors were confirmed: (a) teenagers' sports participation (competitive versus recreational versus no sports); (b) gender (boys versus girls); (c) father (participating in sports versus not participating). Sports participation significantly affected evaluation of the difficulty of PE: Teenagers who played no sports were more likely to rate PE as a demanding subject than teenagers who played a sport competitively. Additionally, sports participation significantly affected evaluation of a canceled PE class: Teenagers who played a recreational sport were less likely to be happy about a canceled class.

Subjects

LEISURE & psychology; SPORTS participation; KRUSKAL-Wallis Test; DEAFNESS; HUMAN comfort; MULTIVARIATE analysis; FATHERS; FISHER exact test; RECREATION; SEX distribution; PSYCHOLOGY of high school students; CHI-squared test; QUESTIONNAIRES; ASSISTIVE technology; DESCRIPTIVE statistics; SPORTS events; STATISTICAL correlation; JUDGMENT sampling; EMOTIONS; DATA analysis software; LOGISTIC regression analysis; PHYSICAL education

Publication

American Annals of the Deaf, 2021, Vol 166, Issue 1, pN.PAG

ISSN

0002-726X

Publication type

Academic Journal

DOI

10.1353/aad.2021.0009