The development of a values inventory for high school girls to measure selected psychological, sociological, and spiritual values as related to physical education

UNCG Author/Contributor (non-UNCG co-authors, if there are any, appear on document)
Jocelyn Leathem (Creator)
Institution
The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG )
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Advisor
Gail Hennis

Abstract: The purpose of this study was to develop a values inventory for high school girls to measure selected psychological, sociological, and spiritual values as related to physical education. One hundred and twelve five-choice multiple-choice items were created for the following values: psychological (honesty-trustworthiness, responsibility, self-control, self-discipline, self-appraisal); sociological (sportsmanship-fairplay, cooperation, leadership, followership, and respect-acceptance of others); spiritual (aesthetic-appreciation of beauty and happiness-enjoyment of activities). The items were sent to a panel of five judges who were asked to categorize the item according to the value represented and the negative to positive order of the responses. All items that received a simple majority (three out of five) agreement by the judges were determined to be valid and were put into an inventory to be administered to high school girls. A forty-four item values inventory was administered to high school girls in Girl's Latin High School in Boston and Brookline High School in Brookline, Massachusetts. Three hundred and sixty-eight subjects took the inventory during the first administration and 294 retook the inventory exactly one week later during the second administration. Statistical treatment of the subject's responses was done with 293 subjects.

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Language: English
Date: 1970

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