Sport participation and educational aspirations: an explicit consideration of academic and sport value climates.

Abstract This examination focused on the role of school value environments in altering the relationship between sport participation and educational aspirations. It was hypothesized that the sport participation and educational aspirations relationship would differ depending on the presence of sport and/or academic school value climates. Regression models incorporating school value climates and a series of factors believed to be linked to sport participation and educational aspirations were used to test the impact of school value climates. An analysis of 1,799 male seniors from 87 high schools resulted in the conclusion that school value climates did not influence the relationship between sport participation and educational aspirations.