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This research focused on the awareness level of Sports of Physical Education BESYO teaching department last year students towards the effects of sports in mentally insufficient individuals. In the research, “Individual Information Form” which is developed by researchers and “The Awareness Level Towards The Effects Of Sports In Mentally Insufficient Individuals Scale ZEBSEYFÖ ” which is developed by İlhan and Esentürk 2015 as data collection tools are used. Awareness level of the participants are compared by the perspectives of gender, availability of mental insufficiency in family, availability of having education towards disability, availability of mentally insufficient individuals of being witness to sports education and state of the participants by doing sports. While the universe of the research include the candidates of BESYO teaching department which are assumed to be graduated in 2014-2015 academic year, the universe of sampling include 615 teacher candidates consist of physical education and sports 248 women and 367 men students which are studying their last year in selected universities by coincidencal sampling. SPSS 17.0 statistics packaged software is used to evaluate datas and to determine calculated norms. Mann-Whitney U and Kruskal Wallis H from nonparametric tests and percenrage distribution, arithmetic average and standard deviation from descriptive statistics are used for abnormal divisioning datas according to testing of normality. According to evidences revived; there is no significant evaluations statistically by the perspectives of gender, availability of individuals that have mental insufficiency in family, availability of mentally insufficient individuals of being witness to sports education p>0.05 . Nonetheless; there is significant evaluations by the perspectives of availability of having education towards disability and state of the participants by doing sports. This significance turns out to be on behalf of doing active sports and having education towards disability for the participants. Consequently, it is discovered that the awareness level of the teacher candidates which are doing sports as an active way and having physical education and sports education towards the effects of sports in mentally insufficient individuals is high by evidence provided by ZEBSEYFÖ scale that recently joined into the national literature. However, different and supportive works are needed to provide generalisation about the subject

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