Put Me In Coach A Survey of the Impact of Team Sports on Womens SelfEsteem

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Put Me In Coach! A Survey of the Impact of Team
Sports on Womens Self-Esteem

• By Jessica Binhack
• Senior Sociology Comprehensive Presentation
• Advisor Susan Alexander

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Overview

• Introduction
• Thesis/Purpose Statement
• Literature Review
• Theory
• Method
• Findings
• Discussion
• Questions

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Thesis/Purpose Statement

• Thesis/Purpose To gain an understanding of how
  participation in team sports during high school
  impacted the self-esteem of college aged women
  and to access the difference between those who
  did and did not participate in team sports.

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Literature Review

• Positive Affects of Sports on Lifestyle
• Pedersen and Siedman (2004)
• Diaz (2005
• Todd and Kent (2003)
• Affects of Sport on Individual Development
• Van Mechelen Verhaggen (2005)
• Diaz (2005)
• Viira and Raudsepp (2000)
• Pedersen and Seidman (2004)
• Harrison and Narayan (2002)

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Literature Review Cont

• Impact of Sports on Depression
• Sanders, Field, Diego, and Kaplan (2000)
• Harrison and Narayan (2002)
• Impact of Sports on Deviance
• Naylor, Gardner and Zaichkowsky (2001)
• Sports and Gender Identification
• Alley and Hicks (2005)
• Richman and Schaffer (2000)

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Theory

• Simone de Beauvoirs Woman As Other (1949)
• Woman no at herself but relative to man
• Not an autonomous being
• Women unable to define themselves without men.
• Socially conditioned to idea of being the Other
• Duality
• The Self and the Other
• Men are the Self and women are the Other
• Establishing of the One and the Other
• Womens secondary role in society hinders their
  upward movement
• Acceptance of a life of inequality

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Theory Cont

• Women historically as the Other
• Womens secondary role in society hinders their
  upward movement
• Acceptance of a life of inequality
• No historical events place women as Other
• The inessential and the inability to be the
  essential
• Pre-second wave of Feminism
• More loyal to men then each other
• Lack concrete means to organize
• No past, hisory, or religon of their own
• Connection to Women in Sports
• Sports are a mans world
• Female participation against traditional female
  roles and role as Other
• Masculinization of Female Competitors
• Sports ability to help women move out of the role
  of being the Other

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Method

• Quantitative Research
• Solicit First Year Student
• Classroom visits
• Information given about the survey
• Handed a flyer with directions to the on-line
  survey
• Information posted on Student Forum

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Method Tables
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Findings