Selected Nebraska high school football players and coaches : a value study

It was the purpose of this study to indicate the significant similarities and differences in the expressed values of selected head football coaches and senior football players in the high schools of Nebraska.The Allport, Vernon, Lindzey, Study of Values (SV) was sent to the counselors of 163 stratified randomly selected high schools.This sampling represented two-thirds of the high schools in Nebraska which met the criteria for the study.One hundred and twenty-seven schools (?8%) responded with usable returns.In addition, the high school coach was asked to complete a short questionnaire concerning his age, education and number of years as a head football coach.In this study, 120 null hypotheses about coach-player value similarities and differences were stated.These null hypotheses were built around comparisons in specific categories of the coaches' and players' values as expressed on the SV.The null hypotheses were accepted or rejected by the t test at the 0.05 level of significance.Also significant differences among values of the coaches alone, in the six SV categories ware determined by appropriate testing with attention to information related to: age, school classification, and years of experience.Significant differences in values among the players in the six SV categories were also determined.