The meaning of "sport" according to adolescents in the USA and the FRG is examined by an association analysis and a semantic differential and analysed in connection with the actual sports activity. As can be seen, the US adolescents spend more time on sports than the Germans yet they have a much more concrete and indiscriminately positive meaning of sport at their disposal. Similarly, it is to be found that, regardless of their nationality, the male adolescents spend more time on sports than the female samples and that their meaning of sport is more concrete and less differentiated.
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