ANALYSIS OF POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE EMOTIONS OF STUDENTS STUDYING IN SPORTS MANAGEMENT DEPARTMENT OF UNIVERSITIES IN TERMS OF DIFFERENT VARIABLES

The aim of this study was to determine the positive and negative emotional levels of students studying in sport management departments of universities. In the study, positive and negative emotional levels of sport management department students were determined and compared according to the variables of gender, grade level, academic achievement, socio-economic status and participation in social activity. The study group consisted of a total of 400 (186 females, 214 males) students in sports administration departments of universities. Positive and negative emotion scale was used as data collection tool. In addition to descriptive statistics; T test, one-way Anova and Tukey test were used in the analysis of data. According to the results obtained from the study; the average positive emotion scores of the students were higher than the average negative emotion scores. In addition, while there were no significant differences between positive and negative emotional score averages in terms of gender and grade level variables; there were significant differences in terms of the variables of academic achievement levels, socio-economic status, and participation in social activity