Özet:

The aim of this study is to examine the attitudes of high school students towards physical education and sports courses in terms of some variables. The research group consisted of a total of 449 volunteer students, including 242 men and 207 girls, who studied in the 5th, 6th, 7th and 8th classes in the 2018-2019 educational year at the Mustafa Kemal High School of Elazığ. In the study, the personal information form was developed in 2008 as a data collection tool, along with the "Body Training Course Attitude Scale" developed by the Pink and Powerful. The SPSS package program has been used to statistically analyze the data obtained. The normal analysis of the data for the determination of whether it is homogeneously distributed and whether it is not distributed has accepted that it is normally distributed and that the data has been tested by parameters. While the Paired Samples t test is applied to compare two dependent groups, the one-way variance analysis (ANOVA) test is applied to compare three or more groups and the Post-Hoc (Tukey HSD) test is applied to understand which group the differentiation is derived in the analysis where statistically significant differences are. In the analysis of data that do not show normal distribution, the Kruskal-Wallis test was applied for three or more groups. The level of meaning is considered p < 0.05. The study found that there were no significant differences in the formation of students’ attitudes and behaviors in relation to the class between their parents’ educational conditions, occupations and sports habits, as well as the number of brothers and sisters (p > 0.05). However, there have been statistically significant differences between students, variables such as age, gender and family income level (p < 0.05). As a result of these findings, it is possible to say that a number of demographic elements, such as age, gender and family income level, are of primary importance to the study of students’ attitudes towards the class and to determine the appropriate policies.