Abstract:

The aim of the research is to examine the search for change and recreational exercise motivation levels of students studying at Sports High School. Relational screening model was used as the research method. The study group of the research consisted of 139 sports high school students, 90 (64.7%) of whom were male and 49 (35.3%) of whom were female, who were studying at Elazığ Sports High School and participated in the study voluntarily. The personal information form prepared by the researcher as a data collection tool in the study was developed by Steenkamp and Baumgartner (1995), adapted to Turkish by Yıldırım (2018), and the Change Seeking Scale was developed by Rogers and Morris (2003) and developed by Gürbüz et al. (2006). REMM-Exercise Motivation Scale adapted to Turkish was used. SPSS 24 data analysis program was used to analyse the data. In order to determine whether the data showed a normal distribution, skewness and kurtosis values were examined. The data were found to be normally distributed and to determine whether there was a difference between variable groups; Independent sample t test was used between paired groups, and one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) was used for variables with more than two groups. Pearson correlation analysis was performed to reveal the relationship between the scales. Subsequently, simple linear regression analysis was performed to reveal the effect of the dependent variable on the independent variable. As a result, it was observed that as the Change Seeking levels of the students participating in the study increased, recreational exercise motivation levels also had a positive effect.

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