Meanings for Women of Sport Influence
on Self-development and Continuity in Sport
Reiko Kato, Japan
This study is a sequel
of the formerly presented study in IAPESGW, 1997 in Lahti, which tried
to clarify how women commit themselves to Movement and Sport during the
a particular period of women's lives, the days of rearing their own
children,
and has illustrated the differences of what women are aware of during the
days of child-rearing between those who have experiences movement and
sport
and those who have not. This has proven an obvious correlation between
participating in sport and self-cultivation, even if they are, in terms
of time and economic conditions, physically or mentally restricted due
to child rearing. My analyses on their values in life and thoughts in
rearing
children around the views towards their struggles in self-development.
The results of analyses indicate that women that have experiences of
regularly
participating in sport are superior in recognizing the keys to
self-development
to those who have not. I would like to focus upon the findings of how
women
prioritize the meanings of movement and sport in life as well as
self-development
itself in the process of their awareness, and probe into the views which
would lead to the keys to enhance the debate upon the educational
environment
in Japan as well as to facilitate women's further participation in
appropriate
manners of movement and sport.
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