Sensibilidade à igualdade de gênero no futebol na perspectiva de estudantes ; Sensitivity to gender equality in football from the perspective of students

The present study has as its starting point a cooperation agreement and the transposition to the Brazilian context of the questionnaire created by Spanish researchers called Escala de Actitudes Hacia la Igualdad de Género en el Fútbol Escolar, divided into a part that collects sociodemographic data, and others three blocks: sociocultural, relational and perceived motor competence, using the Likert scale. We established as a general objective of our work the analysis of opinions, positions and attitudes of students in the final years of Elementary School and High School in relation to gender equality in football in the school environment and high performance. From this, the specific objectives emerge (1) to categorize the profiles of the research participants into groups/clusters based on their responses; (2) establish categories of analysis based on the “sociocultural” block of statements from the EAIGFU questionnaire and analyze how each group of participants positions itself in relation to each theme. (3) To analyze the behavior of the participants relating the answers obtained in the sociocultural block with the answers in the “relational” and “perceived driving competence” blocks of the EAIGFU questionnaire. (4) Point out potential studies or lines of research on the topic or similar topics that can contribute to this category of research and to the understanding we have about football at school, mentioned above. This research is a descriptive and correlational study, which used a research technique called “snowball sample”. The collection took place during the year 2019 and we obtained 187 questionnaires answered by children and adolescents between 12 and 18 years old. To analyze the data obtained, we used statistical software called Statistical Pachage for Social Sciences and performed the following steps: (1) grouping the participants' profiles into clusters (groupings); (2) characterization of clusters based on sociodemographic indicators; (3) thematic categorization of the sociocultural block and ...