Preliminary communication
A Study on the Hopelessness of Turkish Physical Education and Sports School Students
Murat Ozsaker
; School of Physical Education and Sport, Celal Bayar University, Manisa
Nılgun Vurgun
; School of Physical Education and Sport, Celal Bayar University, Manisa
Abstract
This study aims to evaluate and compare university students’ hopelessness levels for specific variables. The sample included 535 university students at the School of Physical Education and Sports (SPES) of the Adnan Menderes University. The 20item Beck
Hopelessness Scale, developed by Beck et al. (1974), was used in
the study. Seber et al. (1993), Durak and Palabıyıkoğlu (1994) created a Turkish adaptation of the scale. Based on the data, descriptive frequencies and percentage tables were obtained. The
Mann Whitney U and Kruskal-Wallis tests, nonparametric correlation
and linear regression analyses were implemented using the SPSS
16.0 statistical software for the hopelessness scores. There was an
insignificant correlation between students’ hopelessness levels in
different departments and playing sports, while students’ hopelessness scores in the training department were higher than the
scores of students other departments. The low income students’
hopelessness levels were higher, but there was a significant correlation between low income and middle/high income.
Keywords
hopelessness; School of Physical Education and Sports; university students
Hrčak ID:
125030
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Publication date:
26.6.2014.
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