Study of developing a scale on attitudes towards the combat sports

Journal Title: Uluslararası Spor Egzersiz ve Antrenman Bilimi dergisi - Year 2016, Vol 2, Issue 3

Abstract

Aim: The study is to develop a scale on the attitudes of 12-16 year-old athletes towards the combat sports. Material and Methods: In order to develop a scale; creating items, taking the expert’s opinions, pretesting, statistics of the validity and the reliability were done. In order to create item pool, two open-ended questions were asked to 60 licensed athletes dealing with combat sports. According to the answers given by athletes, the item pool consisting of 53 items was created. Taking the 3 domain experts, 1 educational specialist and 1 linguist’s opinions, trial scale consisting of 32 items were created for the pretesting step. The clarity and the intelligibility of the scale were tested by 60 athletes .The trial scale in the pretesting step was filled in by 251 licensed athletes (1-7 sports age) consisting of 85 judo, 84 taekwondo and 82 karate athletes. Derived data were coded to the packaged software for statistical process and as a last step; the validity and reliability studies were done. Results: According to the results taken from the trial scale, taking the result of that the parameters of the 9 items should be less than r≤30, a scale of 23 items and 9 aspects remained. As the number of items in the aspects are a few, it was gathered in the 3 sub-aspects by the research team. These aspects were named as satisfaction, pleasure and fomentation. The internal consistency parameters of the aspects; satisfaction Cronbach’s Alpha=0.59, pleasure Cronbach’s Alpha=0.48 and fomentation Cronbach’s Alpha=0.44 were determined. The total reliability point Cronbach’s Alpha=.731 was determined. Conclusion: Scales having enough qualities to test the attitudes of 12-16 year-old athletes towards combat sports was gained. It can be determined whether the attitudes of the athletes are negative or positive by applying to the licensed combat athletes or the students at school for skill analysis.

Authors and Affiliations

Fatma ÇELİK KAYAPINAR, Serhat TEMÜR, Fatih AKCAN, Meral TEMÜR

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  • EP ID EP179432
  • DOI 10.18826/ijsets.82687
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Fatma ÇELİK KAYAPINAR, Serhat TEMÜR, Fatih AKCAN, Meral TEMÜR (2016). Study of developing a scale on attitudes towards the combat sports. Uluslararası Spor Egzersiz ve Antrenman Bilimi dergisi, 2(3), 82-88. https://europub.co.uk/articles/-A-179432