Investigation of self-esteem for university students in terms of doing sports

Authors : Fadime CIMEN, Mehmet KUMARTASLI, Senem SOYLEYICI

Pages : 42-47

Doi:10.15314/tjse.60755

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Publication Date : 2014-02-13

Article Type : Other Papers

Abstract :The aim of this study was to investigate self-esteem of university students in terms of doing exercise variable. Totally 300 students from Suleyman Demirel University voluntarily participated in the research. The students were grouped into two: doing exercises insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(n: 150); and not doing exercises insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(n: 150);. In the research, Self-respect scale developed by Arıcak insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(1999); was used. In the analysis of findings obtained, frequency analysis, independent ``t`` test and One Way ANOVA statistical methods were applied. As a result; a significant difference was found between self-esteem values of students doing exercises and not doing exercises in the research. It was determined that there was a relationship between doing exercises and self-esteem. Moreover, it was also indicated that there was a relationship between age group variable and self-esteem and as people got older, the grades for self-esteem of individuals increased.
Keywords : Sports, self esteem, university student

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