THE STUDY OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE ATTITUDES OF STUDENTS IN SECONDARY EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS TOWARDS PHYSICAL EDUCATION AND SPORTS LESSONS AND THEIR SOCIAL SKILL LEVELS

Abstract

The purpose of this research is to examine and determine the relationship between the attitudes of students in secondary education institutions towards physical education and sports lessons and their social skill levels according to some variables. The sample of the study consists of 500 high school students studying in Anatolian high schools in Ankara Yenimahalle District in 2017-2018 academic year. The personal information form prepared by the researchers was used as a data collection tool in the research, and the "Matson Evaluation of Social Skills with Youngsters MESSY " scale developed by Matson, Ratatory and Helsel 1983 and adapted to Turkish by Erdoğan 2002 was used to measure the social skill level of students. There is also a "Physical Education Attitude Scale" developed by Pehlivan 1997 to evaluate students' attitudes towards physical education lesson. Descriptive statistics methods, mean, standard deviation and skewness, t-Test and Pearson correlation tests were used in the analysis. In the findings of the study, a statistically significant difference was found in social adaptation, positive social behavior, social communication, overconfidence, inappropriate assertiveness and behavioral attitude sub-dimensions according to sex variable in the t-Test results. There was a statistically significant difference in social communication and affective attitude subscales according to age variable. In the correlation test, a positive and low level of significant correlation was found between the social skill scale and cognitive attitude, affective attitude, and behavioral attitude subscales. As a result, it can be said that students with positive attitudes towards physical education lessons have high positive social behaviors and students with high social skills have high attitudes towards physical education lessons.

Keywords

• Secondary school students,Physical education and attitude in sports,Social skills

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