Abstract
This research was carried out in order to determine the anxiety levels of the students of the Faculty of Sport Sciences, who are studying at Mehmet Akif Ersoy University in the province of Burdur, in the Republic of Turkey, according to their departments, due to their social appearance.The population of the research is Mehmet Akif Ersoy University, a higher education institution in Burdur, and the sample is a total of 201 university students, 57 female and 144 male, studying in the “Physical Education and Sports Teaching, Sports Management and Coaching Education” departments of the sports sciences faculty of this university has created. The “Social Physics Anxiety Inventory” scale, which was developed by Hart et al. (1989) and was adapted to Turkey by Mülazımoğlu, Ballı, and Aşçı (2006), consisting of 12 items and two sub-scales, was developed by Hart et al. (1989) in order to measure students’ anxiety levels towards their social appearance (Doğan, 2010; Mülazımoğlu-Ballı & Aşçı, 2004). Only the 7-item part, which is suitable for the characteristics of the Turkish people, was used. Appropriate SPSS program was used for the analysis of the data obtained in the research. In addition, before starting the research, the students filled out a “Voluntary Consent Form” to declare that they participated in the research voluntarily. “Pearson Correlation” test to examine the relationship between variables, the “Independent Samples” test to detect the effects of variables on each other, and the one-way analysis of variance test (One-Way ANOVA) to detect the difference between groups, and multiplexes to find between which groups this difference is “Bonferroni” test which is one of the comparison tests (Post Hoc) was applied. Significant differences were taken as p < 0.01 and p < 0.05.As a result of the research, it has been determined that there are positive and negative significant differences in the anxiety levels of 51 female and 144 male students studying at Burdur Mehmet Akif Ersoy University, Faculty of Sports Sciences, Physical Education and Sports Teaching, Sports Management and Coaching Education departments. Regarding the evaluation of these determinations, it can be said that female students are more sensitive than male students in terms of social appearance.
Highlights
This research was carried out in order to determine the anxiety levels of the students of the Faculty of Sport Sciences, who are studying at Mehmet Akif Ersoy University in the province of Burdur, in the Republic of Turkey, according to their departments, due to their social appearance
The population of the research is Mehmet Akif Ersoy University, a higher education institution in Burdur, and the sample is a total of 201 university students, 57 female and 144 male, studying in the “Physical Education and Sports Teaching, Sports Management and Coaching Education” departments of the sports sciences faculty of this university has created
Regarding the evaluation of these determinations, it can be said that female students are more sensitive than male students in terms of social appearance
Summary
1.1 Social AppearanceWe can express all of the physical, mental and social stance that individuals want to achieve in order to have a better impact on other individuals in society, as social appearance (Hart, Leary, & Rejeski, 1989; Hart et al, 2008, Gunes, 2009; Ozcan et al, 2013).Anxiety; It can be defined as negative mental changes and thoughts that occur outside the control of the individual. They are afraid or uneasy about all kinds of foreign thoughts and substances (Sahın, 2019; Levine and Harrison, 2004; Ozcan et al, 2013). Individuals deny, reject and ignore the situations that hurt them, cut off internal and external contact; (Almeida, Borba, & Santos, 2018) resort to defense mechanisms (Güney, 2018). These repressed and unconscious situations and unresolved problems cause the person to be uneasy, anxious and anxious even in ordinary situations (Sahın, 1985; Erskine, 2015; Kring & Johnson, 2015; Akin, 2007)
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