Validity and reliability evidence of the attitudes towards physical activity of Greek prisoners

Female Prisoners’ Views and Satisfaction on Incarceration Conditions: Findings of a Cross-Sectional Survey in Greece

“…The satisfactory rates of physical exercising in our study appear not to be consistent with a Greek study conducted in three male detention centers, reporting the lack of physical activities and sports during imprisonment [10]. The reasoning behind our finding is that female prison of Attica is one out of five detention centers providing sport facilities, while there are other 29 prisons in Greece that do not provide relevant facilities [32].…”

“…In Greece, limited work has been done in the field of assessing incarceration conditions with the few existing studies to be focused only on mail detention facilities [10][11][12]. The need for such a study was considered imperative given that imprisonment seems to affect inmate's health status, everyday life, as well as their future after release.…”

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“…Since then many prisons incorporated physical activities and sports as part of the education system of offenders according to their rights>> (Konstantinakos et al, 2010). Is very important the decision of council of Europe to established the guidelines in the providing physical activities for prisons, when this success in North American was rules were adopted by the prisonal system, (Delaney & Madigan, 2009).…”

“…<<Exploratory factors analysis with varimax rotation revealed 3 factors consisting of 11 physical activity and sport items that explained the 51.75 % of total variance of variables. These factors are: a) «the need for physical activity» (RA1, 7 items), b) « physical activity before and during imprisonment» (RA2, 2 items), and c) «non-participation in physical activity» (RA3, 2 items)>> (Konstantinakos, Skordilis, Tripolitsioti, & Papadopoulos, 2010). Further analysis by MANOVA in which the three factors compared with age, educational level, geographic stratification, type of prison and previous relationship with the sport, revealed the following: a) the older prisoners showed negative attitudes to each of the three factors separately, b) the attitudes of prisoners who were graduates of primary school were more negative than the graduates of high school and university, c) prisoners in open-air prison, had more negatives attitudes than by prisoners in closed prisons and according to factor two, the prisoners in open prisons showed positive attitudes compared to those participants in closed prisons, d) in terms of geographical stratification it was observed statistically significant differences only for the second factor, while there was no differences in the two other factors, e) the relationship of prisoners with the sport, showed that participants who declared athletes had positive attitudes than of the participants declared supporters, fans or anything from them.…”

“…Is very important the decision of council of Europe to established the guidelines in the providing physical activities for prisons, when this success in North American was rules were adopted by the prisonal system, (Delaney & Madigan, 2009). Different researcher's had interest to use and values the physical activities for the persons in the prison because there are rapid growth in prison populations in the Europe countries (Wagner, Mcbride & Crouse, 1999;Lipke, 2003;McGuire, 2003;Hsu, 2005;Jewkes, 2005;Plugge & Fitzpatrick, 2005;Konstantinakos et al, 2010). Frey and Delanay, in their study that contacted in the prison of the Nevada state, showed that the <<leisure participation in prison life decreased significantly the tension release and increased the possibility for friendships and social relationships>> (Konstantinakos et al, 2010).…”