1 / 10

Put Me In Coach! A Survey of the Impact of Team Sports on Women’s Self-Esteem

Put Me In Coach! A Survey of the Impact of Team Sports on Women’s Self-Esteem. By: Jessica Binhack Senior Sociology Comprehensive Presentation Advisor: Susan Alexander. Overview. Introduction Thesis/Purpose Statement Literature Review Theory Method Findings Discussion Questions.

ora
Download Presentation

Put Me In Coach! A Survey of the Impact of Team Sports on Women’s Self-Esteem

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Put Me In Coach! A Survey of the Impact of Team Sports on Women’s Self-Esteem By: Jessica Binhack Senior Sociology Comprehensive Presentation Advisor: Susan Alexander

  2. Overview • Introduction • Thesis/Purpose Statement • Literature Review • Theory • Method • Findings • Discussion • Questions

  3. Thesis/Purpose Statement • Thesis/Purpose: To gain an understanding of how participation in team sports during high school impacted the self-esteem of college aged women and to access the difference between those who did and did not participate in team sports.

  4. Literature Review • Positive Affects of Sports on Lifestyle • Pedersen and Siedman (2004) • Diaz (2005% • Todd and Kent (2003) • Affects of Sport on Individual Development • Van Mechelen & Verhaggen (2005) • Diaz (2005) • Viira and Raudsepp (2000) • Pedersen and Seidman (2004) • Harrison and Narayan (2002)

  5. Literature Review Cont’ • Impact of Sports on Depression • Sanders, Field, Diego, and Kaplan (2000) • Harrison and Narayan (2002) • Impact of Sports on Deviance • Naylor, Gardner and Zaichkowsky (2001) • Sports and Gender Identification • Alley and Hicks (2005) • Richman and Schaffer (2000)

  6. Theory • Simone de Beauvoir’s “Woman As Other” (1949) • Woman no at herself but relative to man • Not an autonomous being • Women unable to define themselves without men. • Socially conditioned to idea of being the “Other” • Duality • The “Self” and the “Other” • Men are the “Self” and women are the “Other” • Establishing of the “One” and the “Other” • Women’s secondary role in society hinders their upward movement • Acceptance of a life of inequality

  7. Theory Cont’ • Women historically as the “Other” • Women’s secondary role in society hinders their upward movement • Acceptance of a life of inequality • No historical events place women as “Other” • The inessential and the inability to be the essential • Pre-second wave of Feminism • More loyal to men then each other • Lack concrete means to organize • No past, hisory, or religon of their own • Connection to Women in Sports • Sports are a man’s world • Female participation against traditional female roles and role as “Other” • Masculinization of Female Competitors • Sports ability to help women move out of the role of being the “Other”

  8. Method • Quantitative Research • Solicit First Year Student • Classroom visits • Information given about the survey • Handed a flyer with directions to the on-line survey • Information posted on Student Forum

  9. Method Tables

  10. Findings

More Related