EXAMINING THE ATTITUDES OF HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS REGARDING PLAYING GAMES WITH PHYSICAL ACTIVITY

Authors : Fikret ALINCAK, Uğur ABAKAY, Selçuk BUĞDAYCI

Pages : 40-58

Doi:10.22282/ojrs.2018.33

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Publication Date : 2018-04-01

Article Type : Research Paper

Abstract :This is a descriptive research study conducted to examine the attitudes of the high school students towards games. The universe of the study is composed of the high school students in the public schools under the Gaziantep Provincial Directorate for National Education. In total, 493 high school students 295 male, 198 female participated in the sample group. In order to obtain the data for the research, Gaming Scale was used, which was developed by Hazar 2015 . In the analysis of the data, Independent Sample Test, and One Way Anova Analysis were used.As the conclusion, it was determined that the male students have higher attitudes towards playing games with physical activities; risk taking attitude increases and social adaptation attitude decreases as the age and the class levels increase; first grade high school students have higher passion for game regarding the grade level; passion for game is generally high in all of the students; however, the ones with a sportive background have higher risk taking, social adaptation, desire for game, and pleasure attitudes; and Anatolian and Science high school students have higher social adaptation points compared to Vocational high school students.
Keywords : High School, Game, Physical Activity