Abstract:

This study was conducted in order to determine Turkish rural middle school students’ attitudes towards sports. A total of 464 middle school students were included in the study sample. Data was obtained using a scale previously developed by Kocak 2014 , consisting of 22 items and three sub-scales psychosocial development, physical development, and mental development. Statistical analyses were performed on the data obtained in the study using the SPSS 23.0 package program. The Kolmogorov Smirnov test was used to determine the statistical test methods and it was concluded that the study is of normal distribution.Therefore the t-test was used to compare two independent groups and ANOVA and Bonferroni multiple comparison tests were used to compare more than two independent groups. Most of the participants of the study were male students in 6th grade and the majority of these students do not regularly practice a sport. A significant difference was found between the variables of gender and engagement in sports and the sub-scale of the attitude scale, while no significant difference was found between the grade variable, the attitude scale, and all of its sub-scales.

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