The aim of the present research was to evaluate self-esteem of the children and adolescents in terms of their participation in sports by comparing them to the sedentary peers. "Piers-Harris Children's Self-Concept Scale" was utilized in order to determine the self-esteem levels of the participants. The sample of the research was consisted of 336 primary school students in total; 109 boy players and 74 girl players who participated in Turkiye U-12 badminton championship of primary schools and 85 sedentary boy students and 68 sedentary girl students determined with random sampling method from two primary schools from Antakya city center. SPSS 14.0 package program was used for the data evaluation. The data were analyzed with the analysis of variance to explain whether there is a difference between two groups or more, Post Hoc Tukey test and Kruskall Wallis Variance Analysis in the ANOVA model, t-test and Mann Whitney U test for paired comparisons, Pearson Tests for correl...

Brooks D. Tran (Last Name) (First) The Effects of Athletic Participation on the Student’s Self-Concept (Title) MS in Education Dr. Ed Biggerstaff August 2002 42 (Graduate Major) (Research Advisor) (Month/Year) (No. of Pages) Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (Name and Style of Manual Used in this Study) The purpose of this research was to determine if differences existed in the selfconcept of athletes and non-athletes at the sophomore level as measured by the PiersHarris Children’s Self-Concept Scale. 20 male and 20 female athletes and 20 male and 20 female non-athletes were surveyed using a Piers-Harris Children’s Self-Concept Scale to evaluate the psychological health of the sophomore students. The scale assessed selfconcept in six areas as well as the total self-concept. The six areas included 1) physical appearance and attributes, 2) anxiety, 3) intellectual and school status, 4) behavior, 5) happiness and satisfaction, and 6) popularity. Current resea...

This study aims to clarify the impact of sport specialty in physical self concept and gender, and also the difference in the dimension of the physical self concept. A sample of research is made up of 169 sportsmen in different disciplines from Chlef 's sport league with an average age of 18.3± 2.45 (soccer , volleyball, athleticism). The Physical self-description questionnaire (PSDQ) was used to measure the concept of physical self-according to multidimensional perspectives. The research results have demonstrated that the kind of sport discipline practiced by high level players has an impact on their understanding of their physical selves, and the second results might assert the general approximation which we are about to speak about. Gender issue influences self-esteem in relation to individuals, yet in the field of sport, we realize that males and females are equal at the level of all other dimensions of the questioner.

This study is conducted to determine the effect of the sport activities on the self-confidence levels of 13-14 year-olds. Self-confidence formation starts especially at ages of 13-14 and affects the success of the individuals. Therefore, whether sport activities have any effects on self-confidence and whether the demographic characteristics affect self-confidence are analyzed in our study. Total of 272 individuals, 159 individuals participating in sport activities and 113 individuals not participating in sport activities at Ilkadım, Carsamba and Bafra Youth Centers providing services under the scope of the sport activities by the Samsun Youth and Sports Provincial Directorate in the season of 2018-2019 have participated voluntarily in this study. In this research, survey method among the methods used in applied research is preferred. As the data collection tool, a survey form consisting of two sections is used. In the first section the ‘Personal Information Form’ prepared by the res...