Abstract
The research examines self-handicapping levels of prospective teachers according to sports activity variables. The concept of self-handicapping, which is also referred as self-sabotage in the literature, is a mechanism developed by individuals to protect their selves when they cannot achieve a job or when they experience a sense of insufficiency. It is a fact that doing sports has benefits on individuals’ mental, physical, emotional, social and psychological health. This research, which presumes the possible relationship between self-handicapping levels of prospect teachers and doing sports, is conducted with relational screening model. The study group consisted of 584 prospective teachers, 359 female and 225 male, studying at Ataturk University Kazim Karabekir Faculty of Education, Erzurum, Turkey, in the academic year of 2018-2019. The data were collected with the “Self-handicapping Scale” and the personal information form prepared by the researcher. The scale was developed by Jones and Rhodewalt (1982) and its Turkish validation and reliability made by Akın (2012). SPSS 21 package program was used to analyze the data. In the analysis of the data, frequency distribution was used to determine the demographic characteristics, the Independent Samples T test was used to examine differentiation status between two independent variables and self-handicapping, and the One Way Anova analysis tests were conducted to examine differentiation status between more than two variables and self-handicapping. All these tests were analyzed in SPSS 21 package program and the significance was evaluated at p<0,05 level.Findings of the study showed that there was a significant difference between self-handicapping levels of the prospective teachers and gender, family structure, monthly income level, class level and sports activity status. It was concluded that the prospective teachers who were doing sports activities had low self-handicapping levels.Based on the conclusion that sports activities have a positive effect on self-handicapping levels of prospective teachers, and in order to minimize their self-handicapping levels both in education and social life, the study encourages prospective teachers to engage in different branches of sports according to their interest and talents and offers university administrators to provide sports facilities that the students can use.
Highlights
People experience so many happy, joyful and beautiful things in their family and work
It was determined that there is a significant difference between the self-handicapping levels of the prospective teachers and gender, family structure, personal monthly income level, class level and sports activity status
In the study conducted by Kaya et al on prospective teachers it was found that that self-handicapping levels of female prospective teachers were higher than male prospective teacher (Kaya, et al, 2017)
Summary
People experience so many happy, joyful and beautiful things in their family and work. Individual can sabotage themselves behaviorally by following ways: they postpone their duties or tasks, show excessive interest in activities that have nothing to do with their real works, overload themselves, put targets difficult to reach, express that they are constantly tired, use alcohol, drugs or pills, cannot realize the opportunities around them, stay in environments that hinder their abilities and postponing They can apply to verbal-handicapping with various excuses by saying that they experience social anxiety, feel negative emotions, experience traumatic events, have health problems and are embarrassed. In this study, which was conducted with 70 female and 70 male elite university golfers, it was found that the participants who gave less importance to the competitions showed more self-handicapping behaviors during the week before the tournaments than the ones who gave more importance to the competitions At this point, in case of failure, instead of using active self-handicapping strategy before competitions, it will be more reasonable to create excuses after the competition, which would be less harmful to individuals Based on these studies, which have showed that sports activities decrease self-handicapping behaviors of the prospective teachers, in this study it was aimed to determine whether self-handicapping levels differ in terms of sports activities status and to provide suggestions
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