A Research on Social Behaviors of Students aged 11 - 14 in Terms of Sport Perspective

A Case Study in Kütahya City

Abstract

The present study aims to investigate social behaviors of students aged 11-14 who live in city and county centers according to the sport major they practice, level of participation into the activities related with these sport majors, and personal variables. Study sampling is composed of randomly selected 320 volunteer students from two different secondary schools of Kütahya Linyit and Hisarcik Cumhuriyet (148 female and 172 male). In the data collection process in the study, a personal information form developed by researchers and consisted of 10 items to collect demographical details of respondents and bipolar Social Comparison Scale developed by Şahin, Durak and Şahin (1993), and consisted of 18 items were utilized. In the analysis of collected data, beside percentage and frequency analysis methods, Mann Whitney U and Kruskal Wallis tests were conducted to determine significant differences. Finally, significant differences were determined among social comparison levels according to respondents’ preferred sport major, ages, residential place, and income levels (P<0.05).