Lietuvos studentų požiūris į olimpines vertybes

We think that universities are the main medium where Olympic program should be implemented primarily as, if students are more concerned with the Olympic Movement or are aware of it, they pass on their knowledge and ideas to children. First of all, we examined the literature sources. Scientific literature analysis let us easier to understand the importance of moral values, Olympism and Olympic education as well as to reveal the peculiarities of moral values and absorb, how sport activity influence moral attitudes and culture. The aim of the study was to investigate Olympic education in Lithuanian universities and in neighbour countries and to identify Lithuanian students’ attitude towards Olympic values. We have interviewed 218 students from 16 higher education schools of Lithuania. 51% of the interviewed were female (111) and 49% - male (107). The research group was chosen randomly as the questionnaire was distributed in Vilnius, Kaunas, Klaipeda and Siauliai higher education schools. The main part is devoted to investigate students’ attitudes towards Olympism values. The examination of attitudes towards Olympic values consisted of three blocks of claims, which formed a common list of 52 values. For the statistical procedures, there was SPSS 15 for Windows via the setting used. For the analysis of quantitative research data, various statistical analysis methods were used as well. Inside compatibility questionnaire scales were determined by counting the Cronbach’s Alpha coefficient. Students’ attitude towards the values of Olympic structure was estimated using the essential components of extraction and Varimax factor rotation method. Differences were considered statistically reliable at a maximum of 5% of error (p<0,05). The link is considered to be statistically significant at a wider than 5% of error (p