Özet:

Social emotional learning is explained as the participation of individuals in social and sports activities. In this context, in this study, it was aimed to evaluate the social-emotional learning levels of athlete university students. For this purpose, the population of the research consists of students with an athlete's license who are studying at the higher education level. The sample group of the study consists of 221 male (age: 22±2,14), 173 female (age: 21±4,27), a total of 394 university students who are studying at Adiyaman University in the 2021-2022 academic year and have sports licenses in different branches. The social emotional learning scale, the validity and reliability of which was conducted by Karacan Özdemir and Büyükçolpan (2021), was used in the research. The data obtained in the research were evaluated in the SPSS 21.0 package program and the significance level was taken as p<0.05. According to the research findings, the total score of the social-emotional learning scale of the athlete university students was determined as 4.03 and the social-emotional learning levels of the athlete students were found to be high according to the scoring scale. In addition, a significant difference was found in the social emotional learning scale total score, responsible decision-making sub-dimension and relationship skills sub-dimensions of the athlete students in terms of the sport branch variable. In order to determine which groups have a significant difference in favor, it was observed that the total score of the social emotional learning scale and the relationship skills sub-dimension of the test were in favor of athletes with a team sports branch. As a result of the research, the results of the related literature studies were compiled and it was concluded that learning activities related to social emotional learning should be given within the education system and it is important to increase their effectiveness.