Physical fitness and self-confidence status of 10-12 year-old group students who doing sports and not doing sports in Iraq

This study aims to analize the difference between the students aging from 10 to 12 in ıraq who are doing sports and are not doing sports by using eurofit test battery. it also aims to the effects of this situation on their self-confidence. The universe and the material of the study consisted of 210 students, 105 of whom were female and 105 of them were male and the students of Süleymaniye Şehit Abdulrezzak Primary School. These are composed of 120 people who do not sports and 90 people do sports. At the stage of collecting data, it was aimed to proceed to the measurement phase of EUROFIT TEST battery after the Self-Confidence Level Scale developed by Piers Harris was applied. Flamingo balance test, sit-and-reach, standing broad jump, crunch test, bent arm hanging test, handgrip test, 20 meter endurance shuttle run, 10x5 meter shuttle run test, anthropometric measurements were applied and the statistical analysis of the data was done by using SPSS package program. According to independent t-test results of the physical properties of eurofit test data and the physical characteristics of the students who do sports and do not sports for the girls and boys with variables of parametric distribution of the data; weight loss, body fat, twisted arm hanging other eurofit test results were found to be significantly different. There was a significant difference between males in terms of height, weight, Body Mass Index, balance, sit and reach, paw power, except from 10x5 running. According to the results of Normality Test for girls and boys; age, 20 m running and self-confidence were not found to be normal distribution characteristics (p <0.05). Non-parametric tests were applied to these variables. Age and 20 m running and self-confidence between who is doing sport and not doing sport variables according to non-parametric test results for boys and girls; There is no significant difference in age and among boys and girls in terms of age of 20 m and self-confidence in boys and girls according to the situation of doing sports and not doing sports it was found that there is a significant difference in favor of who are doing sports (p <0.05). As a result, it can be said that doing sports has a positive effect on physical fitness and self-confidence in the 10-12 age group of Iraqi girls and boys students. Key Words Physical Fitness, Body Mass Index, Obesity, Eurofit Test Battery, Self- Confidence Scale