Implicative networks of student's representations of Physical Activities

The proposal reports on and discusses results of a questionnaire-based study of young people's attitudes (representations) to team games and volleyball (in the context of physical education lessons). This questionnaire was given to students in French agricultural high school. Treatment use software CHIC. Questions approached attitudes, values and dispositions (representations) of students about physical education, and, more particularly about volleyball. Several networks of variables appear which make it possible to profile different kinds of students. Study of contributions of two additional variables, sex and gender, highlighted networks, makes it possible to improve choices of representatives networks students for later studies based on interviews. Interestingly and somewhat unexpectedly, while sex is a strong predictor of attitudes and dispositions to team sports and volleyball, gender is not.