The investigation of participation physical activity, social appearance anxiety and social self-efficacy at the teacher candidate

The aim of this study is to examine and specify the relationship between the participation of candidate teachers in physical activity, the anxiety of social aspect, and social self-efficacy according to some variables. 2324 (1483 women, 840 men) students in department of Physical Education and Sport Teaching in the School of Physical Education and Sport and also in other departments of Fatih Education Faculty in Karadeniz Technical University in 2012-2013 acaemic year, participated in this research as an investigation group. ?Personal Information Form?, ?Variation Stages of Exercise Behaviour Questionnaire?, ?Social Aspect Anxiety Scale? and Social Self-efficacy Perception Scale? were employed for data collection. The statistical methods used in this research were descriptive statistics, the independent group one way ANOVA, the independent group t-Test, Chi ?square test and also the correlation and regration analysis for determining the relationship among dependent variations. At the end of the research, it became clear that the students? participation in physical activity varies depending on gender, department, the place that they spend the significant part of their lives, if there is somebody interested in sport in their families, and suitable places for exercise. Moreover, it was found that the anxiety of social aspect and the perception of the self-efficacy have a significant variation in all independent variables. According to the correlation between the dependent variables, it was concluded that as the level of participation in physical activity increases, the anxiety of social aspect decreases and the perception of self efficacy increases; as the anxiety of social aspect increases the perception of social self-efficacy decreases. From the results of this prospective teachers, some of the factors that may have become effective in being a qualified teacher, in terms of participation in physical activity is recommended. Keywords: Body image, physical activity, social self-efficacy, social anxiety