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- Title
THE SURVEYING OF THE SOCIAL COMPARISON AND HOPELESSNESS LEVELS OF STUDENTS WHO STUDY AT THE PHYSICAL EDUCATION ACADEMY.
- Authors
Yildiz, Mustafa; Tekın, Murat; Lök, Sefa; Taşğin, Özden; Mehtap, Bekir
- Abstract
The aim of this study is to search the social comparison and hopelessness levels of students who study at at the physical education academy. The surveying group consists of 218 boy and 164 girl, totally 255 students from 1th 2th 3th and 4th class students who study at Gazi Universtiy, Selçuk University and Karamanoglu Mehmetbey University at the department of physical education academy. Firstly, the existent data related to the aim of the search was given by scanning the literature. Thus a theoretic frame was formed about the issue. Secondly, Beck hopelessness scale, which was developed by Beck and his friends (1974) and adapted to Turkish by Seber (1991) and Durak (1994), and social comparison scale, which was developed by Allan and Gilbert (1995) and adapted to Turkish by Şahin, Durak and Şahin (1993) were carried out to the students to evaluate the perceptions that are related to how an individual sees himself/herself in different dimention while comparing with others. On the analysing and commenting, pearson moments multiplication correlation factor, t test, one Way Anova (one way variance analyse) were used and to determine the difference between the groups tukey test was used and P<0,05 signifance was received. SPSS (Statistical package for social sciences) was used to assess the data assessment and finding the calculated the values. At he end of the study, it can be said that while the hopelessness level of students, who study at physical education academy, increases, the level of social comparison decreases. Besides, when there is a meaningful difference between hopelessness level and sex and class level, there is no meaningful difference in social comparison and sex and class level. Individuals' emotional, physiological and social need counteraction obligation forms behaviors base. While fronting individuals' emotional, physiological and social need, naturally they are in interaction between others and sometimes some of them compare themselves with others. While some people feel unsuccess in the consistency of actualization an aim, some feel hopelessness in refusal interpersonal or loss.
- Subjects
TURKEY; SOCIAL comparison; PHYSICAL education; SCHOOL exercises &; recreations; DESPAIR; HUMAN sexuality; SOCIAL perception; SOCIAL sciences; GAZI Universitesi
- Publication
Ovidius University Annals, Series Physical Education & Sport/Science, Movement & Health, 2009, Vol 9, Issue 2, p215
- ISSN
2285-777X
- Publication type
Article