Abstract:

The general purpose of this study is to study the relationship between the school climate perceptions of high school students and their attitudes towards the sport. The specific objective is to identify the factors that influence the students’ school climate perceptions and their attitudes towards the sport. The universe of the study 2018 - 2019 educational year is made up of 17,544 students studying in 74 sports high schools located throughout Turkey, and 449 students participating in the study by taking the permission of their parent through random sampling. In the study, a relative scanning model was used to determine the relationship between school climate perceptions of high school students and their attitudes towards sport. As the data collection tools of the study, the School Climate Scale (Calık and Kurt, 2010) was used to learn the perceptions of students about the school climate, the Sports Attitude Scale (Shentürk, 2015) and the personal information form prepared by the researcher for the purpose of learning the various demographic information. In the study, to understand whether the sample group differs according to the demographic characteristics, it was first applied independent sample t tests and one-way variance analyses. Relationships between the data obtained from the sample group have also been made for the identification of the factors affecting the school climate perceptions of the sample group. If we will conclude the study with the general lines, the high school students’ attitudes towards sport are increasing and the school climate perceptions are also increasing in a positive direction. Compared to the studies in literature, the high school students who participate in the study have been found to have low school climate perceptions and high levels of attitude to the sport. Students who have an athletic license, dream of the national team, participate in school teams, don’t have any violence incident, have high academic success, are satisfied with the sports facilities and materials that the school possesses, find the physical education teacher as sportically sufficient and do not definitely think about leaving the school are determined to have the school climate perceptions in the positive direction.

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