Abstract
The objective of the present study is to analyze the relationship between physical education and sports teacher candidates’ academic self-efficacy and attitudes towards the course of sports history.
 
 The population of the present study consists of 240 junior and senior teacher candidates studying at School of Physical Education and Sports at Yozgat Bozok University and Faculty of Sports Sciences at Erciyes University and Mehmet Akif Ersoy University. The sample group consists of 138 participants randomly selected from the population.
 
 A Personal Information Form developed by the researcher, academic self-efficacy scale developed by Jerusalem and Schwarzer (1981) and adapted to Turkish context by Yılmaz, Gürçay, and Ekici (2007), and the attitude scale towards the course of sports history developed by Yılmaz, Namlı, and Kan (2013) were used for data collection.
 
 The data obtained in the study were analyzed using a personal computer. Numbers, percentages, mean values and standard deviations were used as descriptive statistical methods in the data analysis. Pearson correlation analysis was applied to the continuous variables of the study.
 
 As a result, a positive correlation was found between physical education teacher candidates’ self-efficacy and attitudes towards the course of sports history. It can be suggested that this tendency stems from teacher candidates’ academic development during their education as a university student, which is a transition to a professional life, and their belief in the importance of transferring their academic development to younger generations during their professional career.
Highlights
In addition to leading important innovations in the history of humanity from the past to the present (Karakuş & Köse, 2018), technological developments continuously encourage people to aim for a higher degree of perfection (Karakuş, 2012)
In the light of this, the present study aims to analyze the relationship between physical education and sports teacher candidates’ academic self-efficacy and attitudes towards the course of sports history
The findings of the analysis indicated that one-dimensional and 7-item structure of the original scale was preserved in Turkish scale, too
Summary
In addition to leading important innovations in the history of humanity from the past to the present (Karakuş & Köse, 2018), technological developments continuously encourage people to aim for a higher degree of perfection (Karakuş, 2012). It is acknowledged that education plays a crucial role in raising individuals who can think in all areas of life, process information, make their own decisions and try to reach perfection as a potentially successful individual In this respect, the concept of academic self-efficacy can be defined as an individual’s perception that s/he can perform a given academic task and responsibility at a certain level of success (Donmuş, Akpınar, & Eroğlu, 2017). Attitude as a factor affecting academic success (Kan & Akbaş, 2005) is used to express an individual’s tendency to react to any phenomenon or object (Demirel & Ün, 1987; Gözler & Taşçı, 2015) Another definition approaches attitude as a neural and mental state resulting from direct or indirect phenomena organized by previous experiences and readiness, which directly or indirectly influence an individual’s reactions to all similar events and topics (Shapiro, 1999)
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