Examining winter sports awareness level of University students receiving sport education

Abstract

The aim of this study was to determine winter sports awareness levels of students educated in the field of sports sciences according to the following independent variables: Gender, university, class level, experience in winter sports, family members' interest in winter sports and monthly family income. Through awareness, we increase our consciousness level for ourselves, our environment and the universe, and our consciousness zone extends accordingly. This study used the survey method, and the participants were a total of 562 students attending the School of Physical Education and Sports or the Faculty of Sports Sciences at Kafkas University, Karabuk University, Kastamonu University and Samsun 19th May University in 2018-2019 academic year. 'Winter Sports Awareness Scale' was administered to collect the data for this study. This five-point Likert type scale consists of 35 items. SPSS 20 program was used for the analysis of the data. Skewness-Kurtosis values were calculated, accordingly, parametric tests were used. Independent sample t-test was used for pair-wise comparisons, and one-way analysis of variance and Tukey HSD were used for multiple comparisons. The results of the analysis revealed medium level awareness for winter sports for all the groups. The comparisons of the mean scores for 'gender' and 'family income' variables revealed no significant differences, whereas significant differences were found for 'university', 'experience in winter sports' and 'family members' interest in winter sports' variables.