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The purpose of this study is to examine the level of values of undergraduate students in the departments of physical education and sport according to gender and universities’ different geographical regions of Turkey. For this purpose, a 39 - item “Value Scale” consisting of nine subscales of Dilmaç, Arıcak and Cesur was used. In this research a total of 518 voluntary undergraduate students [175 women and 343 men] participated. When we look at the average level of having the human values of physical education and sports teacher students participating in the research, “human dignity”, “freedom”, “social values”, “intellectual values”, “generosity”, “career values” and “inwardness” came to the forefront subsequently. On the other hand, “romantic” and “materialistic” values were the lowest. Comparing the levels of female and male physical education and sport teachers with their human values, there were significant differences in favor of female students in the mean of “social values”, “career values”, “intellectual values”, “inwardness”, and “freedom” subscales. It can be said that the students of the female physical education and sport teaching students give more importance to the values mentioned than the male students. Despite the fact that there was no significant difference in the total of the humanitarian values of the physical education and sports teacher students in different geographical region universities, there were statistically significant differences in the mean rank scores of “social, career”, “inwardness”, “human dignity”, and “generosity” values subscalesSocial environment, value priorities in society, economic opportunities, libertarian lifestyle thoughts of people can cause differences or similarities in emotions and values in the different geographical locations that can be talked about as East-West and North-South.

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