A Study on the Hopelessness of Turkish Physical Education and Sports School Students
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This study aims to evaluate and compare university students' hopelessness levels for specific variables. The sample included 535 university students at the School of Physical Education and Sports (SPES) of the Adnan Menderes University. The 20-item Beck Hopelessness Scale, developed by Beck et al. (1974), was used in the study. Seber et al. (1993), Durak and Palabiyikoglu (1994) created a Turkish adaptation of the scale. Based on the data, descriptive frequencies and percentage tables were obtained. The Mann Whitney U and Kruskal-Wallis tests, nonparametric correlation and linear regression analyses were implemented using the SPSS 16.0 statistical software for the hopelessness scores. There was an insignificant correlation between students' hopelessness levels in different departments and playing sports, while students' hopelessness scores in the training department were higher than the scores of students in other departments. The low income students' hopelessness levels were higher, but there was a significant correlation between low income and middle/high income.