Investigation of attitudes of students studying at the Faculty of Sport Sciences Balıkesir Universi̇ty towards sporttouri̇sm

This research has been made to investigate the attitudes of the students of Sports Sciences Faculty towards sports tourism that has become gradually popular in our lives. The research has the characteristic of descriptive scanning model. In order to investigate the attitudes of the students studying Sports Science Education towards sports tourism,the attitude scale towards sports tourism developed by Kardaş and Sadık (2018) has been used. The students having education in Balıkesir University of Balıkesir form the universe of the research. As fort hat the sample is formed by 273 students selected using simple random sample selection. The datas abtained were evaluated in the SPSS 22.0 packet programme. In the analyzing of the datas, frequency, percentage, average, standard deviation, one-way Anova, İndependent t-test were used. The relevance level of the statistics was accepted as p<.05. According to the findings of this study, it was determined that in the gender variable, female individuals have higher attitudes compared to males in terms of the dimensions of organization, economic contribution, and personal contribution, with p<.05. In the sports field variable, it was determined that female individuals have higher attitudes than male individuals in the dimensions of organization and job opportunities, with p<.05. In the class variable, it was determined that 1st-grade students have higher attitudes compared to students in other grades in the dimensions of organization and personal contribution, with p<.05. In the department variable, it was determined that physical education and sports teaching students have higher attitudes than students in other departments in the dimensions of job opportunities and personal contribution, with p<.05. In the variable of father's educational level, it was determined that fathers with undergraduate degrees have higher attitudes than other graduates in the dimensions of organization, job opportunities, and personal contribution, with p<.05. In the variable of mother's educational level, it was determined that mothers with master's/doctoral degrees have higher attitudes than other graduates in the dimensions of job opportunities and personal contribution, with p<.05. In the variable of family income status, it was determined that individuals with incomes ranging from 4250-6000 TL have higher attitudes than other income groups in the dimensions of job opportunities, economic contribution, and personal contribution, with p<.05.