Abstract:

The present research aims to explore communication skills and self esteem levels of the students who studied at the School Of Physical Education and Sports of Adnan Menderes University and to determine the correlation between communication skills and self esteem. A total of 380 students (135 female students and 245 male students) participated in the research. Communication Skills Evaluation Scale which was developed by Korkut (1996) and validity and reliability tests of which was performed was used in order to measure communication skills of the students. Rosenberg Self-esteem Scale which was developed by Morris Rosenberg in 1965 and Turkish adaptation of which was made by Çuhadaroğlu (1986) was used in order to measure self esteem levels of the students. The data obtained were evaluated using SPSS 16.0 statistical package program. Non parametrical correlation, Kruskal-Wallis and Mann Whitney U tests were used for the statistical evaluation of the data. Significance level was accepted as p<0.01 and p<0.05. As a result of the study, there was a significant correlation between communication skills and self esteem of the students (p<0.05). It was found out that scores of communication skills and scores of self esteem of the students who played sports were higher compared to those who did not play sports while there was not any difference between these students in terms of sex (p>0.05).

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