@article{2019,title={INVESTIGATION OF ATTITUDES OF SECONDARY EDUCATION STUDENTS TOWARDS SPORTS},abstractNode={The fact that high level of attitude towards sports is of importance in terms of sportive success has been observed in many studies. Based upon these thoughts, in our study, it was aimed to investigate the attitudes of secondary education students towards sports. Within the framework of our study, the study group included randomly chosen 516 secondary education students, who studied in the city center of Elazığ in the 2018-2019 education period. The secondary education students in the study were surveyed with a Personal Information Form (age, grade, gender, parents’ jobs, monthly income, state of doing sports ad sports branches) and the Attitude Towards Sports Scale, which was developed by Koçak (2014) for determining attitudes towards sports, were used. The obtained data were evaluated using the SPSS statistics package software. The variables were calculated for their frequency (f) and percentage (%) distributions. For multiple group comparisons, ANOVA was used while t-test was used for independent two-group comparisons. Tukey test results were utilized to determine the significance in the groups that had significant differences. In our study, the level of significance was regarded as p<0.05. As a result of our study, in the evaluation of the subscales of the attitude towards sports scale of secondary education students, it was observed that psychosocial development subscale was high with a mean score of 3.76 while the physical development subscale was high with a mean score of 3.77 as well as the mental development subscale being high with a mean score of 3.82. Based on the personal information form variables, it was observed that there was no significant difference in the attitudes of secondary education students towards sports. In the evaluation of the mean family income, another variable of our study, it was observed in the physical development subscale that there were statistically significant differences between those with low monthly income and those with moderate and high monthly incomes. It was observed that as monthly income of the family increased, the attitude towards sports also increased. The fact that the family is at a level of welfare financially is believed to directly affect the tendency to sports in leisure time activities.},author={Eyyup NACAR-- Atalay GACAR - Ömer Faruk TUTAR},year={2019},journal={The Journal of Social Sciences}}