Investigation of social skills and social behaviors of disabled students participating game, sports and physical activities lessons in TERMS of PEER rejection according to teachers' views

This research was conducted to examine the relationship between peer rejection, social skills and social behaviors of students with disabilities who participated in the game, sports and physical activities lessons. In the research, two scales were applied to the teachers of the students in order to obtain information about whether the students with disabilities were exposed to peer rejection. A total of 316 teachers, including 63 physical education teachers and 253 special education teachers, who work in 1st, 2nd and 3rd grade special education schools and are responsible for game, sports and physical activities lessons, were included in the research. The research was designed as a descriptive and relational survey model. Within the scope of the research, the adaptation of the "Causes of Peer Rejection Scale" into Turkish was made and it was brought to the literature under the name of " Game, Sports and Physical Activities Lesson Peer Rejection Scale Teacher Form ". In the research, the "Game, Sports and Physical Activities Lesson Peer Rejection Scale Teacher Form", which was adapted into Turkish after the reliability and validity studies, was used as a data collection tool. In addition, the School Social Behavior Scale was used to collect data in the research. The SPSS 22.0 package program was used in the analysis of the data, the Kolmogorov-Smirnov test for the normality distribution of the data, the Mann-Withney U test for pairwise comparisons, and the Kruskal Wallis-H test for multiple comparisons. In the study, it was investigated whether students with disabilities were exposed to peer rejection by their peers due to their social skills and social behaviors. In addition, teachers' age, gender, branch, number of students, city of residence, years of service, etc. the relationship between the variables and students' peer rejection was also examined. In all of these mentioned variables, a significant difference was found regarding peer rejection (p<0.05). In the study, it was concluded that students with disabilities who have lower social skills and more negative social behavior than their peers are exposed to more peer rejection by their peers. Key Words: Disabled Students, Game-Sports and Physical Activities, Peer Rejection, Social Skill and Social Behavior, Teachers' Views.