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

Year 2018, Volume: 3 Issue: 3, 338 - 345, 25.12.2018

Hacı Ali Çakıcı

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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