Gap vs. Effort: Comparative Study of Sports Attitude of College Students from China and US

ABSTRACT

Through survey and literature methods, this paper studies the sports attitude of college students from China and the US, to discuss the constituent elements and different perceptions to sports attitude. The result shows that: Among Chinese college students, male students are more positive to sports than female students. The influence of major is significantly smaller than that of gender, while the uncertainty of sports attitude increases with different majors; Despite the differences in gender and major, American college students hold similar and consistent sports attitude, which is relatively stable and certain, with less students in the middle attitude; Gender difference of Chinese college students is bigger, while the major difference is relatively smaller, which is the opposite of the US; Both Chinese and American college students shared the same top give aspects on sports attitude. The attitude and cognition of sports are similar especially from the perspective of gender and major. The sports attitude of American college students in different gender and different major are relatively more consistent, while there is certain disparity between the sports attitude of Chinese male students and female students.

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