Evaluation of socialization in young basketball players of the Real Madrid Foundation

Abstract

The promotion and encouragement of educational values in Real Madrid Foundation Social Sport Basketball Schools is one of the most important goals on which we have been working in recent years. The work project "For a Real Education: Values and Sport" includes several lines of action aimed at teachers, families and students. To assess the progress of students in relation to one of the educational content we try to promote, as for example, the socialization, we used the "GR-SIPPEL" scale (Ruiz, Graupera, Moreno and Rico, 2010), in which the following dimensions are evaluated: cooperation, competition, individualism and affiliation. The main objective of the study was to: describe the social interaction preferences of boys and girls in the youngest category (8-10 years) of Real Madrid Foundation Social Sport Basketball Schools. Participants who took part in the study were 129 male and female players (87 boys, 75.2%; and 42 girls, 24.8%). The overall descriptive analysis of the data showed that in general, higher values are reached in the dimensions of cooperation ( M = 3.368 , SD = 0.421 ) and affiliation ( M = 3.132 , SD = 0.548 ), while in the dimensions of competition (M = 2.351 , SD = 0.843 ) and individualism (M = 1.903 , SD = 0.680 ) had the lowest values.