Abstract
Background and Study Aim: This exploratory study tried to find out religiosity levels and perceptions of Turkish university students on female participation in sport. It also aimed to point out the possible relationship between religiosity and female participation in sport. Material and Methods: For this purpose, 412 university students attending to different faculties in Bartin University in Turkey completed Religiosity Inventory and Female Participation in Sport Questionnaire. The findings derived from both scales were evaluated using SPSS 22.0 program through descriptive statistics, t-Test and Anova Tests, and the relationships between two scales were calculated using Pearson Correlation Test and Regression Analysis. Gender and field of study were used as variables to elaborate the results of the scales. Results: According to the findings of the research, it was found that the university students had very high religiosity level and very positive perception of female participation in sport. Moreover, the study pointed out there is a weak positive correlation between the religiosity and female participation in sport which was contradictory to the study hypotheses of this research. Conclusions: As a conclusion, this study conveyed that religiosity does not have a negative effect on the female participation in sport.
Highlights
: Conclusions: Keywords: This exploratory study tried to find out religiosity levels and perceptions of Turkish university students on female participation in sport
This study tried to point out the relationships and differences of religiosity and female participation in sport through the eyes of Turkish university students using gender and field of study as the variables
This study is significant as it tried to find out the possible associations between religiosity levels and perceptions of female participation in sport of the university students
Summary
: Conclusions: Keywords: This exploratory study tried to find out religiosity levels and perceptions of Turkish university students on female participation in sport. Within the Muslim majority populated countries, female participation in sport has a primary importance due to the various number of constraints when compared to other countries with different sociological and religious backgrounds. In order to establish a balance between the psychological and sociological aspects of the definitions, Allport and Ross [5] applied intrinsic and extrinsic religious orientation categorizations According to these authors, intrinsically oriented individuals find their master motive in religion. Extrinsically religious oriented individuals turn to God, but without turning away from themselves [5] That means they are disposed to use religion for their own ends, such as, to provide security, status, etc. Anyone or all of these qualities may be present and the construct was measured in two dimensions as private and public religiosity [9]
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