Influence of biographical data and sports experience of university students of physical-sports education on their beliefs, attitudes and physical self-concept

The purpose of this study was to examine how sports experiences and their biography influence each subject, with respect to their beliefs and attitudes towards physical education and their physical self-concept. Four different scales were used in 826 students aged 18-24 years in total who lived in the Basque Country, found by simple random sampling method. The first scale is the "Personal Information Scale" that consists of 4 items to determine the socio-personal characteristics, the sporting experience, profile of the coaches and qualification in Physical Education. As for the second scale used, it was Feelings about Physical Education (Bourke, & Morgan, 2005) that examines Perceptions about Physical Education (PEF). The third scale used was the Questionnaire of attitudes towards physical education CAEF (Moreno et al., 2003), in its validation to the Basque of Attitudes towards the discipline of Physical Education (ADEF), and finally the AFI Questionnaire, Autokontzeptu Fisikoaren Itaunketa (Esnaola, 2006), which examines the physical self-concept of the subjects. The study data were analyzed by SPSS 25 software package. A principal component analysis (PCA) was carried out in order to explore the correlation between scales, as well as between the scales and the categories of the biographical and sports experience variables. It was determined that there is a correlation of the vast majority of the questionnaire scales. In conclusion, there is a clear separation between two groups or profiles of students determined mainly by the responses to the questionnaires on attitudes towards physical activity, beliefs and self-concept.