This study is intented to emphasizes the necessity of providing the base data to suggest the right direction for the following reasons. Firstly, by analysing how a participation of sports club as a root of P.E. class in elementary school can affect on...
This study is intented to emphasizes the necessity of providing the base data to suggest the right direction for the following reasons. Firstly, by analysing how a participation of sports club as a root of P.E. class in elementary school can affect on adapting the school life, it is important to offer the solution for problems like violence behavior, runaway from home, and a suicide caused by failure of adapting school life considered one of most controversial social issues. Secondly, by examining how students' satisfaction level is related with participating in school sports club, this study helps to improve students' satisfaction for school life and to integrate school P.E class with sports for all. This study is involved with 316 participants of school sports club who are 5th and 6th grade elementary school students in Gwangju area. And it is conducted to investigate how participation in school sports club can affect on adaptation and satisfaction to school life. Firstly, school adaptation depending on genders partially shows differences from three factors, school life adaptation, friendship with classmates, and class adaptation among 5 sub-factors. According to the analysis of school life adaptation upon grade, four sub-factors-adaptations of school life, environmental, friendship, and teacher are meaningful excepting adaptation for class and higher adaptation result in 6th grade participants than 5th grade. Secondly, school life satisfaction depending on genders partially differ shows differences. For example, female students tend to content more with friendship, class, school environment, and school events than male ones. In case of satisfaction for teachers, there are no differences statistically. 5th grade students shows higher contentment in all factors than 6th grade on school life satisfaction. Thirdly, corelation analysis about general characteristics and participating type, school adaptation, and satisfaction of participants for school sports club results in the difference between school life adaptations, especially in school life, environment adaption, satisfaction factors quantitatively.