The Relationship between High School Students Sport Participation and Their Self-esteem, Subjective Well-being and Academic Achievement: Focusing on Bangladesh

Abstract

The Relationship Between High School Students Sport Participation and Their Self-esteem, Subjective Well-being and Academic Achievement: Focusing on Bangladesh.

Mohammad Tanvir Zaman Global Sport Management, Department of physical Education The Graduate School Seoul National University

Sport participation contributes in increasing the Self-esteem, Subjective wellbeing(SWB) and academic result of students. Specifically, regular sport participation can play a big role for the development of students in highly populated city like Dhaka, Bangladesh. But to increase the sport participation of students in the Dhaka city or in the country students especially high school students and their parents need to know about the benefit of it. Knowing about the contribution of sport participation on young students Self-esteem, SWB and Academic results will motivate the students, their parents and policy makers to improve the sport facilities in future in Dhaka city. This study examines the relationship between high school students Sport participation and their Self-esteem, SWB and Academic achievement in Dhaka, Bangladesh. A survey questionnaire was used to collect the data about high school students level of Sport participation, Self-esteem, SWB and Academic results. Data was collected from three hundred high school students (N=300) of Dhaka city. The primary result about the participation of sport shows that big number of high school students are not participating in sports. Almost 50% of the participants of the study were found either not participating in sports at all or participating 1-2 days of a week. Other student respondents were participating in sports specially on cricket and football, two famous sports of the country. Following the depth analysis, this study found that sport participation has positive relation with the increase of high school students Self-esteem, SWB and Academic result in Dhaka. The conclusion can also be drawn that with the increase of sport participation, high school students Self-esteem, SWB and Academic result also improve.

Keywords : Sport participation, High school student, Self-esteem, Subjective wellbeing, Academic achievement Student Number: 2015-22357