Investigation of Competitive Attitudes of University Students According to the Participation in Sports

The purpose of this study is to examine the competitive attitudes of Hitit University students according to their participation in sports. The sample of the research consists of 782 students who were selected at the Hitit University by random sampling method. Survey technique was used to collect research data. The survey used in the research consists of two parts. In the first part, the descriptive information is in the second part and the 'Competitive Attitude Scale' developed by Akbay？rl？ (1998) is composed of 23 questions of likert type. SPSS 21.0 V statistical program was used in all statistical calculations and the results were accepted as significant at p <0.05 level. One-way analysis of variance was conducted to examine whether students' competitive attitudes differed according to demographic variables. In the case of demographic variables with more than one categorical group, post-hoc tests (Scheffe and Dunnett C) were carried out in order to find out which categorical difference was caused by considering the equality of variances between groups. When the obtained data are evaluated; participants' attitudes did not significantly differ according to age, gender, smoking, and their active sport situations (p> 0.05). As a result of the analyzes; there was a significant difference between the competitive attitude levels and the faculties, sports ages and financial situation in which the students were educated (p <0.05). When the data obtained were evaluated, it was determined that the participation in sports affected the students' competitive attitude levels