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- Title
ASSESSMENT OF TAEKWONDO NATIONAL SPORTS ATTITUDES TOWARDS ELDERLY.
- Authors
SAHIN, Metin; SAGIRKAYA, Ali; BADEMLI, Kerime; LOK, Neslihan; PEKER, Alper Tunga; LOK, Sefa
- Abstract
Aim. In this study, it was aimed to evaluate the attitudes of taekwondo national sportsman's towards elderly. Methods. The study is planned in the descriptive type. The survey was conducted with Taekwondo national sportsmen. The universe of the research was national sportsmen who played Taekwondo in all over Turkey and were over 18 years old. The 128 national sportsmen who agreed to participate in the research of the research sample and returned with the questionnaires were formed. In gathering the data; Information form prepared by researchers questioning the socio-demographic information of the sportsmen and "Attitude Scale Towards the Elderly" were used. Mann Whitney U and Kruskall Wallis test were used to evaluate the relationship between the number and percentage distributions of the demographic data of the study and the sociodemographic characteristics and Attitudes towards the Elderly Attitudes Scale. The results were evaluated at 95% confidence interval and p <0.05 significance level. Results. Taekwondo national sportsmen who agreed to participate in the survey had a mean age of 28.25 ±2.15, 38.3% of them were high school graduates, 33.75% were students, and 42.6% were in core families, 27.9% were living in the city for the longest time, 27.5% 39.2% of them had spent 16 years or more playing sports. (P <0.05), college graduates (p <0.05), fractured family members (p <0.05), students (p <0.05), the same households with the elderly family members as compared to the socio-demographic characteristics of the national athletes and attitude scale scores towards the elderly (p <0.05) and those who were 16 years and over (p <0.05) had a higher mean score of attitude scale towards elderly. Conclusions. As a result of the research, it was found that Taekwondo sport affects positively the attitudes of individuals towards their elderly. In terms of variables, being a woman, being a college graduate, living in fragmented families, becoming a student, living in the same household with an elderly family, and doing sports over 16 years affects positively towards the elderly.
- Subjects
ATHLETES; SPORTS; OLDER people's attitudes; TAE kwon do; MANN Whitney U Test; DEMOGRAPHIC databases; SOCIODEMOGRAPHIC factors
- Publication
Ovidius University Annals, Series Physical Education & Sport/Science, Movement & Health, 2017, Vol 17, Issue 2, p485
- ISSN
2285-777X
- Publication type
Article