Religiosity and female participation in sport: exploring the perceptions of the Turkish university students
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30.06.2018
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Purpose: This exploratory study tried to find out religiosity levels and perceptions of Turkish university students on female
participation in sport. It also aimed to point out the possible relationship between religiosity and female participation
in sport.
Material: For this purpose, 412 university students attending to different faculties in Bartin University in Turkey completed
Religiosity Inventory and Female Participation in Sport Questionnaire. The findings derived from both scales were
evaluated using SPSS 22.0 program through descriptive statistics, t-Test and Anova Tests, and the relationships
between two scales were calculated using Pearson Correlation Test and Regression Analysis. Gender and field of
study were used as variables to elaborate the results of the scales.
Results: According to the findings of the research, it was found that the university students had very high religiosity level and
very positive perception of female participation in sport. Moreover, the study pointed out there is a weak positive
correlation between the religiosity and female participation in sport which was contradictory to the study hypotheses
of this research.
Conclusions: As a conclusion,
