女子高校生スポーツ競技者への指導者による体罰の実態

抄録

I investigated the status of corporal punishment in Japanese high school athletic clubs and the students' evaluative awareness of this practice. I also examined the relationship between this awareness and the emotions and thoughts resulting from experiencing corporal punishment from instructors during club activities. One hundred eighty-eight female college athletes volunteered to participate in the study. They were asked to complete retrospective questionnaires about the details of their corporal punishment, their tolerance of corporal punishment, the need for it in athletic club activities, and so on. Descriptive statistics, t-test, and one-way analysis of variance revealed that: more than half of all female college athletes had experienced corporal punishment during high school club activities; the principal punishment they had received was to be painfully slapped or beaten, or both, with tools (e.g. a strategy board, stopwatch, or PET bottle); corporal punishment occurred more in team-sport-club activities than non-team-sport-club activities; many athletes considered corporal punishment to be permissible, but they had no clear thoughts regarding the need for it; after receiving corporal punishment, the athletes who had a positive view of its value developed affirmative feelings and recognized that such treatment was necessary; it was likely that the frequency of corporal punishment experiences was irrelevant to the team performance level in competition.