The Relationship Between Leadership Features and Critical Thinking: Ordu University Physical Education and Sports School Students Sample

Abstract

The aim of this research is to determine the relationship between leadership features of physical education of sports school students and their critical thinking tendencies. The study group consisted of 344 students of physical education and sports at Ordu University. In this research, ‘Leadership Orientation Scale’ and ‘California Thinking Disposition Scale’ is used as data collection tool. The results of the study reveals positive and negative relations between the sub-dimensions and total scores between leadership and critical thinking disposition (p<0.01). According to results, it is found that there is a moderately positive relationship between analyticity sub-dimension scores and human-oriented, structure-oriented, transformational and charismatic and leadership scale total score sub-dimension scores and this relationship is statistically significant. Moreover, the lowest level of relationship between the leadership scale sub-dimension and total scores are determined between the curiosity sub-dimension.

Keywords

• Leadership,critical thinking

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