The relationship between physical education and sports school students' positive thinking skill levels and their attitudes to learning: Comparison by gender and years of exercising

Alparslan Ince

African Educational Research Journal
Published: October 26 2020
Volume 8, Issue 4
Pages 754-760
DOI: https://doi.org/10.30918/AERJ.84.20.179

Abstract

The aim of this study was to compare the relationship between physical education and sports high school students' positive thinking skill levels and attitudes of learning in terms of gender and years of doing sports. The study is a descriptive method, one of the quantitative research methods. The study group consisted of 280 (age: 20.98 ± 1.390) university students from School of Physical Education and Sports in Ordu university. As a result, it was concluded that the students' positive thinking skills were at a high level, and the nature of learning, anxiety, expectation, and openness to learning sub-dimensions of the attitude tolearning scale were at high levels. It was concluded that there is a statistically significant and positive relationship between the nature of learning, Expectation, and openness to learning, and positive thinking skill from sub-dimensions of the attitude tolearning scale, but there is a negatively significant relationship between anxiety and positive thinking skills.

Keywords: Positive thinking, attitude to learning, sports.

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