Abstract:

The aim of this study is to examine the academic self-efficacy levels of high school students according to some demographic variables and the factors that prevent them from participating in physical activities and to investigate the relationship between them. Target population consists of high school students who continue their education in public and private schools affiliated to the National Education Directorates in the central districts of Konya (Karatay, Meram, Selçuklu) in the 2020-2021 academic year.In the study, random element sampling was used. The study group of our study was 537 male, 516 female a total of 1053 students who continue their education in the 9th, 10th, 11th and 12th grades of Sports, Science, Imam Hatip, Vocational and Anatolian High Schools in the central districts of Konya (Karatay-Meram-Selçuklu) in the 2020-2021 academic year. The "Academic Self Efficacy Scale" developed by Yılmaz, Ekici and Gürçay (2007), the "Factors Preventing the Participation of High School Students in Physical Activities Scale" developed by Özbek (2019) and “People Information Form” were also used as data collection tools in the study. The research data were analyzed by means of SPSS 20.0 program. In the analysis of gender, class level, school type, time spent with technological devices obtained from personal information form in the research; frequency and percentage values are used. Since the data showed normal distribution, independent samples t test was used in the gender group with a pairwise comparison, and Anova test, which is a one-way analysis of variance, was used for more than two groups comparisons. Pearson correlation analysis was conducted to examine the relationship between academic self-efficacy and sub-dimensions of the factors that prevent high school students from participating in physical activities. Cronbach's Alpha internal consistency analysis was applied to determine the reliability levels of the scales we used in the study. The significance level was accepted as p<0.05 or p<0.01. As a result of the study, it was determined that there is a significant (p<0.05) difference between the academic self efficacy of high school students according to the variable of school type. . There is a positive (p <0.05) and “high” level of relationship between in entourage dimension, which is one of the sub-dimensions of physical activity participation barriers, and academic self efficacy level; It was determined that there is a positive (p <0.05) and "low" level relationship in family, school, facility club and education sub-dimensions. A significant difference (p<0.05) was found in all sub-dimensions of the factor of barriers to participating in physical activities according to the variable of school type. Significant differences p<0.05 were found in the gender variable in the sub-dimensions of school, facility and entourage; education and school sub-dimensions.