Wpływ środowiska kibiców na wychowanie młodzieży
Environmental Impact of Football Fans on the Education of Youth

Summary/Abstract: Football fan stereotype as a vulgar fool, barbarian, hooligan, savage and vandal still exists in the public consciousness. This belief discourages many people to come to the stadium. In their opinion, the stadium tribunes are not a safe place. Therefore it would seem that the fans have a negative impact on the education of young people – demoralize them. The desire to verify this assumption has become a cause of this thesis. This article presents the characteristics of adolescence and a description of tested environment available in the literature. This article provides a typology of participants in sporting events and their standards. It shows the areas of activity of football fans associations and the results of their research. The subject of the research process was the method of expressing negative emotions by fans, their social attitudes and the nature of interactions with significant people and strangers. Studies were diagnostic. The selected group – the football fans of Stomil Olsztyn actively participating in sports spectacles was intentionally covered by the study. Those fans were characterized by the age between eighteen to twenty years. The study was based on observation techniques and categorical survey using a questionnaire.

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