The aim of this study
is to identify the decision-making skills of the high school students
participating in school sports activities. The sample of the study consisted of
221 (n=96 girls and n=125 boys) volunteer students studying in 4 different high
schools affiliated to Kırıkkale Provincial Directorate of National Education in
2017-2018 academic year. The students participating in the study were divided
into 3 different age groups. 49.3% (n=109) of the students are in the 14-15 age
group, 35.7% (n=79) are in the 16-17 age group and 14.9% (n= 33) are in the
18-19 age group. "Melbourne Decision-Making Questionnaire" which was
developed by Mann, Burnett, Radford and Ford (16) and whose validity and
reliability in Turkish were carried out by Deniz (9) was used in the identification
of decision-making skills of the students. The data obtained from the
questionnaire were evaluated in SPSS 22.0 package program at 95% confidence
interval and 0.05 significance level. In this study, the effect of two or more
independent variables on more than one dependent variable was determined by
two-way MANOVA analysis. In the statistical analyses, it was found that there
was no interaction between the dependent variables (F(15, 577,36)=.86, p>0.05)
and there was a statistically significant difference between the
self-confidence, which is one of the sub-dimensions of the decision-making, and
grade variable (F(3,213)=2.85,
p<.05). In addition, it was determined that there was a
statistically significant difference between the self confidence and team or
individual sport variable (F(1,213)=7.18,
p<.05). According to the findings obtained from the study, it was
concluded that the highest mean value obtained from the decision-making styles
of the students who participated in the school sports activities belonged to
Part I “self-confidence", and also the self-confidence of the 12th grade
students was higher than the 9th grade students. Another
result obtained from the study is that the students who are interested in team
sports have higher self-confidence than the students who are interested in
individual sports. As a result of the evaluation, the fact that the students
participating in the study adopted the style "Self-Esteem
(Self-Confidence) in Decision-Making" at the most supports the hypothesis
of this study.
Primary Language | English |
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Subjects | Sports Medicine |
Journal Section | Articles |
Authors | |
Publication Date | April 30, 2019 |
Acceptance Date | March 20, 2019 |
Published in Issue | Year 2019 |