Abstract:

This study aimed to examine the attitudes of the students of Fırat University, Faculty of Sport Sciences, Department of Recreation Education, towards folk dances. The universe of our research is composed of undergraduate students studying at the Faculty of Sport Sciences of Fırat University, while the sample consists of 146 undergraduate students studying in the Department of Recreation Education. In our study, a personal information form (class, age, gender and branch type) and an attitude scale towards folk dances developed by Yoncalık (2007) were used to determine the personal information of the participants. SPSS 22 package program was used to calculate and interpret the data. First of all, the normality test was conducted to determine which tests will be applied to the data. As a result of normality tests, it is seen that Skewness, 091, and Kurtosis, 942 values show a normal distribution. Accordingly, t-test and analysis of variance (ANOVA) test were used due to parametric tests. It was determined that there was no statistically significant difference with the sub-dimensions of the attitude scores towards folk dances according to the variables of gender, class, and branch of the undergraduate students studying at the Department of Recreation Education at Fırat University Faculty of Sport Sciences. According to the age variable, when the participants' attitude towards folk dance sub-dimension levels and the age variable was examined, it was found that the difference between students aged 20 and under and students aged 21-30 in the affective sub-dimension was statistically significant. According to the findings of our study, it was determined that the attitude scores of the students of the Recreation Education department towards folk dances were 3.17 in the Cognitive sub-dimension and 2.87 in the Affective sub-dimension, and their attitude scores towards folk dances were above the average.

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