Methodological Foundations of the Diagnosis of Olympic Knowledge, Values and Principles

Methodological Foundations of the Diagnosis of Olympic Knowledge, Values and Principles Olympic education is influenced by many institutions (IOC, NOC, NOA etc.) which are connected with cooperation with educational and scientific institutions at the university level. One of the possibilities to spread the Olympic idea among population is Olympic education at schools. The object of our research was to modify the Rychtecky`s Czech version of the original survey "Olympic questionnaire" by Telama et al. from 1998. At the same time we reduced the survey and created a shorter version more useful in school settings. Another object of our research was to identify and specify similar tendencies between 12-year-old and 15-year-old adolescents. It was followed by the evaluation of possible change in perception of values of the targeted population. Our sample consisted of 597 adolescents (12 and 15 years old) from 7 grammar schools from Southern Bohemia location. The results of our research demonstrated significant extremity in girls` attitudes (p<0,05 - p<0,001) toward the fair play behaviour in sport. Younger respondents also perceived fair play models more positively than older respondents (p<0,05) which was confirmed by bigger tolerance to violence by the older respondents (p