Investigation of communication levels of university students doing sports and do not sport<p>Spor yapan ve yapmayan üniversite öğrencilerinin iletişim düzeylerinin incelenmesi

Abstract

In the study conducted, it was aimed to examine the communication levels of university students doing sports and having sedentary life style. The study universe of the study consisted of 304 students in total of which 124 female students and 180 male students of Adnan Menderes University in 2015-2016 education year. Students having the habit of doing sports regularly were selected from School of Physical Education and Sports and students having sedentary life style were selected from Faculty of Communication and Faculty of ScienceLiterature. ''Scale for Evaluation of the Communication Skills'' was used in the determination of communication skills of the participants. Mann Whitney U test and Kruskal Wallis H Test in SPSS 22.0 package program were utilized for statistical analysis of the data collected. At the end of the study, it was found that communication skills levels of students having the habit of doing sports regularly and students having sedentary life style did not show statistically significant difference according to gender, age range, status of doing sports regularly, place of living and type of high school graduated from (p>0.05). As a result, it can be

Examining the Relationship Between Physical Education and Sports Teacher Candidates' Speaking Self-Efficacy Perceptions and Speech Anxiety

“…For example, Cooper (1969) stated that those with a sports background are more enterprising, more prone to communication, better at social relations, and outgoing than those without a sports background. It has been noted in various studies that individuals involved in sports tend to possess superior communication skills in comparison to their non-sporting counterparts (Çiçek, 2018;Tepeköylü-Öztürk et al, 2011;Ulukan et al, 2017). It is thought that all of these may explain our findings.…”