Group cohesion in students of physical education in the first cycle of compulsory secondary education

Group cohesion has been considered an important factor in the formation and growth of work teams, as well as an important variable for different groups and different types of group pro-cesses. The aim of this project is to analyze the possible differences in gender, age and educa-tional level with respect to group cohesion in the area of Physical Education in the first cycle of Compulsory Secondary Education. The sample consisted of 306 students who answered three sociodemographic questions in addition to nine questions comprising the Group Cohesion Eval-uation Questionnaire. For the statistical analysis, the Kolmogorov-Smirnov test was used to establish the assumption of normality. Therefore, nonparametric tests were chosen because this as-sumption was not met. Consequently, the Mann-Whitney U test was used to examine gender and the Kruskal-Wallis test was used to analyze age and educational level. Spearman's Rho test was then used to analyze the association between the items and the sociodemographic variables. Internal consistency was assessed using Cronbach's alpha. Finally, statistical differences were observed in some items of the questionnaire with respect to age and educational level and, to a lesser extent, in one question specifically in relation to gender. Since these differences may be due to various factors, perhaps even punctual, it would be advisable to develop future lines of research to alleviate this situation.