Value types among physically active seniors and youth Acta Universitatis Carolinae Kinanthropologica
Abstract
The paper looks at the issue of value types among seniors and young people, both physically active and inactive. Values and value types were identified based on the Schwartz Value Survey questionnaire (SVS).
The validity of the questionnaire was reviewed in a major study in the Czech Republic (Kavalíř, 2003). Among physically active seniors, the characteristic values tend to be in line with the security value type in the sense of both the closest social environment and wider social contexts.
This is analogous to the group of physically inactive seniors and seems to be generally true of the entire senior population. Among young people involved in competition sport, we find value types (Self-direction, Stimulation, Hedonism, Achievement, Power) that are typical of competitive sport in general including such characteristics as competitiveness, assertiveness, emotionality, and striving for social status, success and economic reward.