Socio-Cultural Constraints Affecting Secondary School Girls Participation In Sports Activities

Abstract

Girls’ participation in sports is declining due to some limitations and restrictions of the society. Therefore this study aimed to explore the societal and cultural constraints that hinder the participation of girls in secondary schools. Descriptive study was conducted and survey method was used to collect data from randomly selected girl’s respondents for the study. The Data was collected from those secondary classes’ girls who did not participate due to some reasons through a valid and reliable questionnaire. Reliability was found 0.77 for the whole scale. The major constraints were family constraints as they not allowing girls to participate in sports, societal attitude is negative and they consider it as wastage of time, marriage (sports participation hinder their marriage), sports uniform (consider as unsuitable for females), and misinterpretation of religion Islam, lack of media role (not give proper coverage to female sports).