日本の一流競技者のスポーツ観構造について : 日本人のスポーツ観分析のための一試論

The present research has been carried out concerning, (1) to examine the methods of study on the sport conception, (2) to make clear the structure of the sport conception held by the top athletes in Japan, (3) to find out the factors influenced to the process of forming the sport conception. (1) The studies on the sport conception were so far done with the following three approaches. (i) An approach based on the study of the national characteristics of the Japanese, (ii) An approach with statistical investigation, (iii) An approach with qualitative data analysis. For the present research the third approach has proved useful for making clear the structure of the sport conception and for finding out the factors which have influenced its forming process. (2) The sport conception consists of various factors such as attitude, belief, value-orientation towards sport. These factors were sampled from the reports of interviews in "the Taikyo Jiho". The top athletes who were interviewed were 33. From these materials the sport conception in top athletes can be said to form the structure as shown in Fig. -1. The subjects on "how sport should be". "Shorishugi" -winning is the first thing-, "Seisin-shugi"- over emphasis on mental effort-etc. were also examined. (3) The structural model of the forming process of the sport conception was constructed as shown in Fig. -2. Three men were selected among 33 and their forming processes of the sport conception were analyzed. From the results, factors-relation schemes on the forming processes of their sport conceptions were obtained as shown in Figs. 3-5