Assessing Stakeholders Views on Factors Influencing Female Participation in Sporting Activities: A Case Study at Bia West District in the Western North Region of Ghana

Abstract

Female students’ participation in sporting activities has been an issue across the globe typically in Africa. This is due to factors that affects their active participation in these sporting activities. However, there may be different views on the factors affecting female students participation in sporting activities and this study seek to bridge the gap by assessing stakeholders view on these factors. The purpose of this study was to examine stakeholders’ views on factors influencing female participation in sporting activities at the senior high school level in Bia West District. Quantitative descriptive survey design was adopted for the study. The population of the study was 893 and purposive sampling technique was used to select all 893 participants for the study. Questionnaire was the main instrument for data collection. One-way ANOVA and 3 x 3 Factorial ANOVA were used in analyzing the results. The results of the study revealed that, there exist differences in views between the stakeholders (P = 0.00<0.05)   with respect to factors influencing female students’ participation in sporting activities. The current study also revealed that, there is interaction among the three schools (p = 0.003)   on their views with respect to factors influencing female students’ participation in sporting activities, however, there is no interactions among the stakeholders with their view with respect to the factors influencing female students’ participation in sporting activities (p = 0.12) . In addition, there exist no interaction between the schools and the stakeholders (p = 0.34). It is therefore recommended that stakeholders should be educated on the debilitating effect of misconceptions to help support female students to participate in sporting activities.