SOCIAL APPEARANCE ANXIETY AND LEISURE TIME EXERCISE LEVEL OF HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS

Authors

  • Işıl Aktağ Physical Education and Sport Education, Bolu Abant İzzet Baysal University, Turkey orcid.org/0000-0003-1062-6595
  • M. Kadir Akbulut Hatay Belen Kanuni Sultan Süleyman Ortaokulu, Turkey
  • Soner Tuzcuoğlu Soner Tuzcuoğlu is also a physical education teacher. He received his master degree in Physical Education Teaching and Sport from Bolu Abant İzzet Baysal University (BAİBÜ). His interest areas are the metacognitive development and teacher education.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.46827/ejes.v8i4.3704

Keywords:

social appearance anxiety, leisure time exercise, high school students

Abstract

The aim of this study is to determine the Social Appearance Anxiety (SAA) and Leisure Time Exercise (LTE) levels of high school students according to school type, gender, sports license and grade levels and to find the correlation between SAA and LTE. 2383 high school students participate the study from 3 different cities. Data were collected using SAAS developed by Hart et al. (2008) was translated into Turkish by Doğan (2010) and LTEQ developed by Godin and Sheppard (1985 and 1997) was translated into Turkish by Lapa et al. (2016). As a result of the analysis, a significant difference was found between high school male and female students in terms of LTE. The research has shown that the SAA and LTE levels of vocational high school students are higher than Science and Anatolian high school students. In addition, 12th grade high school students have the lowest LTE level and the highest SAA level compared to other grades.

 

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Author Biographies

  • Işıl Aktağ, Physical Education and Sport Education, Bolu Abant İzzet Baysal University, Turkey orcid.org/0000-0003-1062-6595
    Işıl Aktağ received her master degree in Sport Psychology from Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey in 2003. She completed her Ph.D. degree in Education Faculty at the University of Nebraska - Lincoln (UNL), USA. Her doctoral thesis was about the teacher efficacy of pre-service teachers. She is currently an associate professor at Bolu Abant İzzet Baysal University (BAİBÜ). Her interest areas are the teacher education and self-efficacy.
  • M. Kadir Akbulut, Hatay Belen Kanuni Sultan Süleyman Ortaokulu, Turkey
    Mehmet Kadir Akbulut is a physical education teacher. He received his master degree in Physical Education Teaching and Sport from Bolu Abant İzzet Baysal University (BAİBÜ). He is currently pursuing his Ph.D. degree in Hacettepe Sport Science Institute, Ankara. His interest area is the technology usage in physical education.

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2021-04-23

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Vol. 8 No. 4 (2021)

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