Key Influences Flashcards
Personal characteristics definition
Describe the way you are and what distinguishes you from others
Introverts quality’s
🙈shy, sensitive, careful 🙈individual activities 🙈not physical contact 🙈no equipment 🙈played inside
Extroverts quality’s
🤪outgoing, confident, mix well 🤪team activities 🤪physical contact 🤪use equipment 🤪player outside
Introvert sport example
Archery is an INDIVIDUAL sport which suits those who are introverts are they are often SHY and like doing things ON THEIR OWN. Introverts are not often confident and do not like team sports where they feel they are LETTING DOWN THE TEAM. Archery involves looking after and being CAREFUL with EQUIPMENT. This suits introverts as they usually safety conscious and DONT TAKE RISKS. In COMPETITION they are ALONE, there is NO PHYSICAL CONTACT, you need to be calm, steady, concentrate. This suits introverts. They are INWARD looking so prefare to be on their own, with no physical contact and are comfortable SHUTTING THEMSELVES OFF from world and concentrating
Extrovert sport example
Ice hockey is a TEAM sport which suits extroverts as they are OUTGOING and MIX WELL. Extroverts are OPTIMISTIC and CONFIDENT so they are good team members. Ice hockey is fast tough and exciting. This suits extroverts as they seek thrills, like PHYSICAL CONTACT and speed. In competition they tend to be COMPETITIVE and not give up so perform well. TRAINING involves working with others and can involve ‘BANTER’ between members and competition for places. Extroverts like being with others and can give and take banter. They also thrive on the FIGHT to get a place of the team.
Motivation definition
Desire or drive you have to do something.
Greater desire more likely become a committed participant.
Motivation extrinsic
👈🏽motivated things outside you
👈🏽desire to win medals, cups, money
Motivation intrinsic
👉🏼desire comes from inside you
👉🏼love to compete- win or lose
👉🏼more likely stay a committed participant
👉🏼can have external goals- eg cups but don’t lose motivation if they fail
Competition definition
Where you engage in a contest. It could be against one or more entrants, a set standard or natural and the elements.
Competition
🥇Major factor in keeping many people committed participant.
🥇people who are successful want to continue to show they are the best and to maintain perform at a high level.
🥇people who don’t do well work on improving their performance some, find competition off putting, they are unlikely to participate unless they can at a purely recreation level.
Affluence definition
Abundant supply of money available to spend, after having paid for all essential outgoing.
Affluence
💰 someone who is affluent is wealthy, opportunity to participate in expensive in expensive activities or sport. Eg buy own yatch for sailing.
Afford to employ a personal trainer, pay for golf lessons or extra coaching to help improve
💰if you have little money after all essential outgoings you are limited in what physical activities you can do. Eg could be limited to walking or running from your house. Unlikely to afford extra lessons coaching, or employ a personal trainer.
💰doesn’t necessarily mean you will be a committed participant
Work-leisure balance definition
Relationship between the time you spend working and the free time you have for leisure
Work leisure balance
⏰Amount of leisure time can affect participation. If you have lots of leisure time you can be involved in whatever activity. You have lots of time to improve performance
⏰if you work 9-5 and off weekends you are available for team trainings and matches.
⏰some doctors work shift, hours irregular and antisocial- limited choice of sport. Find it difficult to become committed participant to competitive teams as often not available.
⏰unemployed have lots of leisure time but could have financial restrains.
⏰job well laid you can take part in expensive activity’s
⏰people who find jobs repetitive or tedious look for sports exciting and trifling eg skiing
⏰people who find their jobs hectic and busy look for sports provide release eg yoga
Facilities definition
Buildings that allows organised sports and physical activities to take place eg swimming pool
Facilities
Can affect participation eg if an area has a pool prob be a club. Having easy access will increase interest in use of pool. But no pool nearby people reluctant to travel less likely become committed participant or get involved
School
If child experiences quality physical education and sport during the 12 years compulsory pe, good chance they will become involve in the activity and sport inside and outside school and will become committed participants when leave school. If their experience is bad or limited then less chance of participating when they leave school
Enjoyment
If you have a good time participating in the physical activity you are more likely to become a committed participant and often want to improve your performance.
You could be bad at a sport and enjoy participating so continue. If you don’t enjoy an activity you are likely to give up
Excitement definition
Feelings are aroused in pleasure of anticipation of something
Excitement
Opportunity to try something new can be exciting, encourages you to try out. If you feel excited over it again and it continues (because friends, your good at it, competition it offers) you are likely to become a committed participant.
If you are not at all excited. Similarly if you try a sport and it’s boring (even if excited at first) unlikely become a committed participant
Release definition
Being freed from any obligations or duty’s
Release
After a hard day at school, going for a run provides a release that allows the tension disappear and the rebuilding of energy.
Having experienced benefits they then want to continue participating. It is the experience that is important not so much the actual performance
Success definition
When an outcome has been favourably achieved
Success
😊Vary from enjoying yourself to winning competitions
😊consistently successful more likely become a committed participant- SUCCESS BREEDS SUCCESS
😊sport opportunity cope with success and failure. Competitive sports always winners and losers
😊winning inspire to improve. Lose analyse what went wrong and improve.
😊personal experience often determine whether you become a committed participant or not
Parents, siblings and peers
👆🏼 significant influence on whether you become a committed participant in activity.
👫if your parent actively runs ran with you or played games eg tag it explains your love for sport and why your a committed participant
👫older siblings teach you
- how to play fair
- rules
- accept winning and losing
- be patient
👫encouragement more likely to become a committed participant make you want to perform well. Being ignored, criticised will have opposite effect
👫peers enjoy participating in a certain sport more likely stay involved. Whereas if peers disinterested you won’t participate either
Cultural heritage definition
Passing on and reinforcing of shared tradition from one generation to the next
Cultural heritage example
If your parents play tennis they might have taken you at a young age to the tennis court. At first, you would have retrieved the balls, but soon you would be given a mini racket and played with your parent. Soon you would been taught to play perhaps get coaching. You might have been involved in a junior competition, your parents are likely to have supported you.
Cultural heritage
Parents play->you play->your children play
👫becomes family traditions
👫some schools develop tradition of playing rugby others football. Good chance part of it go to that school.
👫if local club successful attracts young members continues into next generation
👫when sport becomes a tradition, for family local community or country a lot to expectation
Media definition
Refers to the means of communication that reach large number of people in a short time eg internet, TV, social media.
Media
🎬influence participation as chooses what sports to cover and in what depth
🎬coverage of the sport results in couch spectators - more interested in watching becomes an easy habitat
🎬critic performance and private lives, affect performances of some sports people
Alternative leisure activities
Many leisure activities for those not interested in participating in any kind of sport/activity
-watching tv, social media, going to pub
🌸nothing wrong in participating in any other this. Problem is when you exclude physical activity. More you sit the more inefficient your body becomes making physical tasks difficult eg breath less easily walking up stairs
🌸lack of exercise and unhealthy diet lead to obesity. Negative habits eg smoking and no exercise increase health risk
Age
Many sports age controls what event or competition your allowed to participate in. Eg young kids may not allowed marathon. Other sports age groups are popular to keep children safe and other kids similar development
Age affects performance. Young- not fully developed can’t perform as well as a mature adult. As you get older physical capabilities start to detoriate so you can’t perform as well
