Interconnection of sport, training frequency and self-esteem of fourth form pupils in Visaginas town

The object of the work: interconnection of sport, training frequency and self – appraisal of fourth from pupils. The problem of the research: The psychological and physical development of children mostly depends on self-esteem forming, how much they engage in sports and train during the period of the younger school age. The most of the researches separately analyze physical activity, its influencing actions or personality and actions related with its forming. The deficiency of complex researches in which a person would value as a unit and physical activity would be analyzed in connection with self-esteem is observed. The aim: To ascertain interconnection of sport, training frequency and self-esteem of fourth form pupils in Visaginas town. The objectives: 1. To ascertain sport and training frequency of fourth form pupils in Visaginas town in gender groups. 2. To ascertain the level of self-esteem of fourth form pupils in Visaginas town in gender groups. 3. To ascertain the connection between peculiarities of sport, training frequency and self-esteem of fourth form pupils in Visaginas town. Hypothesis: pupils who go in for sports and train value themselves better. Conclusions: 1. More than half of pupils participating in the research attend sports study groups. Most of respondents attend sports study groups from 1 to 3 hours per week. The majority of fourth formers are active outside every day or several times per week. Most of children (82, 4 percent) go to school on foot. 2. General self-esteem of all fourth form pupils from Visaginas town is average. During girls’ communication with peers their estimate scale of self-esteem is higher than boys’, however, while boys communicating in school they value themselves better. 3. While communicating with parents the positive connection between girls’ value of sport importance and self-esteem is revealed. General and separate self-esteem scale evaluations statistically slightly differ according to sport study group attendance and training frequency (p>0,05)