ミニバスケットボール教室参加児童の適応性の追跡的検討

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The purposes of this study are to examine the changing process of the adjustment of members of a mini-basketball club and to clarify the factors that regulate the adjustment of thoses children. The subjects of the longitudinal study were 1, 076 children of whom 491 are members and 585 are non-members. and the following results were obtained.
1) The adjustment of the members of the mini-basketball club is very high compared with that of non-members. The examination of the annual change of their adjustment shows that the adjustment gets higher and higher until it is about 110 points, and that after the highest point is reached it tends to decrease.
2) The annual change of the adjustment is not drastic, both boys and girls, members and non-members, show a small amount of decrease when they are in the sixth grade.
3) The adjustment of both boys and girls seems to increase in proportion to their out-door play, to the number of their friends, and to the attention they pay to their shoolwork. The following items seem to be the causes of the adjustment increases: ‘Juku’ (a sort of private evening school where children study for the entrance examinations), training schools (of caligraphy, piano and so on), the hours of their out-door play, the number of playing grounds, their enthusiasm for out-door play and, in the cases of girls, their inclination toward out-door play.
4) The change of the boys' adjustment, according to their grade, is similar to that of the girls and it tends to decrease when they are in the sixth grade. At the end of the sixth grade the adjustment of mini-basketball club members is at its highest followed by other sports club members and then by non-members.
5) The greatest factor that regulates the annual change of adjustment is, both boys and girls, their enthusiasm for study. Their inclination toward out-door play is the next greatest factor.