The Role of Gender in Shaping Player Experiences and Success in Sports

Monica Montoya, & Dr. Daniel Armanino

Sports teach and train us to create a relationship with ourselves mentally, and physically, and help by overcome obstacles we face but, are sports equally beneficial for all who play them? I ask whether females and males experience the same benefits in a sports club and analyze the effects of participating in sports and if they are the same for both males and females. I predict that males will have a positive effect on males while in a sports club. I will be using secondary data analysis of 13,781 participants in sports clubs through the 2018 General Social Survey. From this research, I found that my hypothesis was supported by nearly half of males having a more positive effect from playing in a sports club. Since we have a better outcome of males playing sports we should find out the reason why it is more prevalent for males and start implementing those reasons in greater volumes in females in sports clubs to have the same positive outcome.

Poster Presentation

Session 3

2:45pm – 4:00pm
Grand Salon

Sociology