Investigation of Adolescents' Recreational Sports Awareness Cover Image

Ergenlerin Bir Rekreasyon Etkinlik Türü Olarak Spora Yönelik Farkındalıklarının İncelenmesi
Investigation of Adolescents' Recreational Sports Awareness

Author(s): Erdal Zorba, Mutlu Türkmen, Baglan Yermakhanov, Umit Dogan Ustun
Subject(s): School education, Evaluation research, Sports Studies
Published by: Dumlupınar Üniversitesi - Beden Eğitimi ve Spor Yüksekokulu
Keywords: sports; sports for all; life-long sports; recreation; awareness;

Summary/Abstract: The aim of this study was to examine the sports awareness of adolescents who participate in recreational sports as active or passive in terms of various variables. The study was designed as a quantitative research and 231 high school students from Hatay who were selected with convenience sampling method participated in the research. To collect data the "Sports Awareness Scale" developed by Uyar and Sunay (2020) was used. In the evaluation of the data, SPSS 23 package program for Windows was used and independent samples t test and one-way analysis of variance test were applied at 95% confidence interval. According to the analyzed results, the sports awareness of boys is higher than girls’ in the "sports knowledge and discrimination" sub-dimension (p 0.05).

  • Issue Year: 8/2021
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 132-142
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: Turkish