Attitude of pupils of tenth grade towards physical culture and sport

The object of the research — attitude of pupils towards physical culture and sport. The goal of the research — to institute the attitude of tenth grade pupils towards physical culture and sport. Tasks: 1. To ascertain the interest of tenth grade pupils in sport. 2. To ascertain the interest in sport in families of respondents. 3. To institute attitude of respondents towards lessons of physical culture. 4. To ascertain attitude of respondents towards physical culture as the means of developing moral characteristics and social skills. 5. To institute the nourishment peculiarities of pupils. 6. To ascertain attitude of respondents towards hygiene and conditioning. Research methods: the analysis of literature sources, questionnaire, mathematical statistics. Respondents: pupils of tenth grade from Jurbarko (A school) and Kėdainių (B school) Secondary Schools (n = 214). Results of the research: boys from A school like basketball the most from all types of sport, and in addition to basketball, boys from B school like body-building. Girls from A school like sport dance, aerobics and horse riding the most from all types of sport, and girls from B school like basketball, track and field athletics and swimming the most. The most popular television broadcast on sport‘s theme for the respondents is basketball. In the second place for the boys from A school is wrestling, and for boys from B school — sport news. Boys from A school more than boys from B school would like to go in for sports more actively. Sport broadcasts are being watched more by boys from A school and by girls from B school. In big sport events and/or matches mostly take part boys from A school and girls from B school together with their families. Mostly pupils from B school and boys from A school are interested in sport. More lessons of physical culture are being liked by boys from A school and girls from B school (p < 0.05). The most of pupils, except girls from B school, are satisfied with sport hall and stadium. Mostly boys from B school and girls from A school tend to skip lessons of physical culture. Girls from A school tend to have more conflicts with teachers of physical culture than girls from B school. Though the opinion about the influence of physical culture and sport to development of moral peculiarities of girls and boys from different schools was different (p < 0.05), but the majority indicated that physical culture and sport develops the willpower. Most of pupils from A school think that sport does not help achieving better results during lessons of other subjects (p < 0.05). The majority of respondents from both schools share the opinion that sport is helpful when getting new friends. Nourishment of pupils is not the same. Boys from A school mostly take breakfast and dinner, and boys from B school take dinner and supper. Girls from A school tend to take dinner more than girls from B school (p < 0.05). Pupils from B school more often eat fruits and vegetables and they more often take vitamins and food supplements