title: Turkish adolescents' attitudes toward physical education.
abstract: 1,163 middle school students (586 girls, 577 boys; Grades 6-8) were selected through a stratified random sampling method to examine their attitudes toward physical education (PE) by grade, student's sex, sports participation characteristics, and teacher's sex. They were administered the Attitude Toward Physical Education Scale for Children. Factorial analysis of variance indicated that Grade 8 students' mean attitude scores were less positive than those of Grade 6 students, but the attitudes of boys and of sports participants were more positive than of girls and nonsports participants. Findings were similar regardless of the teacher's sex.
authors.affiliation: Physical Education and Sports Department, Faculty of Education, Middle East Technical University, Inonu Bulvari, Ankara, Turkey 06531. dehunuk@metu.edu.tr
authors.forename: Deniz
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Hünük
authors.forename: Giyasettin
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Demirhan
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D001294:Attitude to Health / Q000208:ethnology*; D002648:Child; D003431:Cross-Cultural Comparison; D005006:Ethnicity / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010806:Physical Education and Training; D000297:Psychology, Adolescent; D012737:Sex Factors; D013177:Sports / Q000523:psychology