The extent to which an individual's experience with and participation in athletic activities is constrained by gender connotation of the sport, sex of the individual, and the individual's classification on the Bem Sex Role Inventory (BSRI) was examined. A Sports Participation Questionnaire was completed by 80 university students selected on the…

Sex-typed subjects express concerns about the gender appropriateness of a sport more often than androgynous and undifferentiated subjects. Moreover, they rate gender-based factors as more important to their decisions than do the latter two groups. (Author/BJV)