Open AccessA Comparison of Perceived Social Anxiety among Individual and Team Sports Participant High School Students
Author(s) -
Ümit Doğan Üstün,
Adem Yapıcı
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
world journal of education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1925-0754
pISSN - 1925-0746
DOI - 10.5430/wje.v9n6p1
Subject(s) - turkish , psychology , anxiety , test (biology) , statistical analysis , physical education , social psychology , applied psychology , clinical psychology , mathematics education , paleontology , philosophy , linguistics , statistics , mathematics , psychiatry , biology
This paper aimed to investigate individual or team sports participant high school students’ perceived social anxietylevels according to their sports branch, the weekly duration/day of doing sports, the aim for doing sports and gender.Two hundred high school students (Mage=16.29 ± 1.11) participated in the study. The study designed as across-sectional study and the Turkish version of Social Anxiety for Adolescents (SAS-A) used as the data gatheringtool. In the evaluation of data independent samples t-test and one-way ANOVA statistical methods used as thehypothesis tests. According to the study findings, there was not any significant difference in the variable socialanxiety according to the sports branch and the weekly duration/day of doing sports. However, significant differenceswere found between individual sports participants’ social anxiety according to aim for doing sports and gender. As aresult, this paper showed that professional individual sports participants had higher perceived social avoidance anddistress for general and new situations. Also, male individual sports participants reported a higher fear of negativeevaluation than females.