Background: Scientific research processes are of capital significance in defining problems from a critical perspective, identifying the variables, determining the relationships between these problem variables, and finding solutions to existing issues. Aim: Based on this direction, the current study aimed to examine the effects of sports science students' attitudes towards scientific research methods course on their critical thinking skills considering various variables. Methods: The study group, determined by a simple random sampling method, comprised 412 students with an average age of 21.92, studying in sports sciences. "Attitude Scale Towards Scientific Research Course" and "Critical Thinking Skills Scale" were used to scale students' scientific research and critical thinking skills. Results: The study determined that while there was no significant difference between the students according to the gender variable, there were differences according to the department and class variables. Conclusion: As a result, there is a positive relationship between students' attitudes towards scientific research methods and their critical thinking skills. Keywords: Sport Sciences, Scientific Research, Critical Thinking

Ancak insanların birbirlerine neden yardım ettiği/etmediğini ya da zarar verdiğini tam olarak açıklamak oldukça karmaşık bir durumdur. Son yıllarda, psikoloji, sosyal psikoloji, spor psikolojisi ve spor sosyolojisi alanlarında prososyal ve antisosyal davranışlar üzerine yapılan çalışmalar, bu ve benzeri soruları cevaplamaya çalışmaktadır.Bu kitapta da, profesyonel ve amatör futbolcuların sosyal kimlik bağlamında prososyal ve antisosyal davranışları, çeşitli sosyodemografik özellikler açısından karşılaştırmalı olarak incelenerek, okuyucuya aktarılmak istenmiştir. Kitabın, öncelikle Spor Bilimleri alanındaki araştırmacılara ve tüm okuyuculara katkı sağlaması dileklerimle… Saygılarımla, Hikmet TURKAY v İÇİNDEKİLER 1. GİRİŞ .

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Background and Study Aim: The aim of this study is to investigate the relationship between personality traits and optimal performance mood in response to gender, sports branch, weekly training hours of the athletes competing in the university league variables. Material and Methods: A total of 250 volunteer athletes from 17 universities, 75 female and 175 male, participated in the study. 95 of the athletes are basketball and 155 are volleyball players. In addition to the personal information form which includes demographic information prepared by the researchers, “Optimal Performance Mood Scale” developed by Jackson and Eklund (2004) and adapted to Turkish by Aşçı et al. (2007) and “5-factor personality traits scale” developed by Benet-Martinez, John (1998) and adapted to Turkish by Schmitt, Allik, McCrae and Benet-Martinez (2007) were applied to the participants. Frequency analysis was applied in order to determine the participants’ demographic information based on the statistical data analysis, and unpaired t-test was applied to determine the personal traits and optimal performance mood scores in response to gender, branch, weekly training sessions. Furthermore, in order to determine the relationship between that personal traits and optimal performance moods correlation test was applied. Statistical significance level was accepted as p <0.05. Results: As a result of the analysis of the data obtained; while there was no significant difference between the athletes according to the gender variable, it was concluded that there was a significant difference between sports branch, weekly sport variables and personality traits and optimal performance moods. In addition, a positive correlation was found between the participants' personality traits and optimal performance moods as a result of the correlation test (r=0,608). Conclusions: This study has proved that personality traits and optimal performance moods effect one another positively and gender variable makes no significant difference. Yet, sport branches and weekly training hours makes meaningful differences between general and subscales scores.