Valores asociados al tiempo de las mujeres dedicado a las actividades físicodeportivas

Resum

The increasing numbers of sport practitioners, and among them, the women who practice sport and physical activities, are some of the main results in recent studies that analyze this reality (García Ferrando, 2006a). This tendency is explained, as well as promoted, by underlining the benefits of sport and physical activities; however, these many benefits appear as not corresponding to the scarce increase of practitioners. In order to explain the increase of men and women that practice sport and physical activities, as well as to reflect about the influence of these activities, it seems convenient to place sport and physical activities practice —and the motives linked to it— in the cultural context, which has been changing in the last decades —taking into account some postmodern values. Following the above mentioned, in a study with 636 women from eight Autonomous Communities (Asturias, Balearic Islands, Basque Country, Catalonia, La Rioja, Madrid, Navarra, and Region of Valencia), made trough an on-line questionnaire, results show significance of associations among the reasons for starting the practice of sport and physical activities, and what is more positive valued in practicing them. Specifically, data obtained contributes with new knowledge close to Inglehart’s social values theories, as well as with a theory of free time related to those of Inglehart’s: the self-management theory (Codina, 1986, 2007; Munné, 1980; Munné & Codina, 2002).