Preventing of Early School Leaving:Sport as Protective Factor

The study aims to highlight the contribution of sport as a tool for preventing early school leaving and developing psychophysical well-being. School, territory and sports association can, with appropriate institutional partnership actions, implement training interventions in this sense. Through an analysis of the scientific literature we want to highlight the important value of sports practice especially in school age. Organized sports activities contribute to the development of skills related to socio-relational well-being. Full awareness of one’s own cognitive and social skills allows improving self-perception. Sport, therefore, becomes a tool for preventing and contrasting early school leaving, a real protective factor that limits the decrease in motivation to school attendance and favors school performance.