Studying of relationship between a person's attitudes towards sport and happiness level: An implementation over academic staff Aydın Adnan Menderes University

People are essentially born with the action of move. Sports that has multidisciplinary are a has been always required to be exist for physical, social and psychological well-being in human's life. People have realised a movement or an action over aganist certain objects, materials and situations. Thus, they develop a personal attitude and then acquire it. Attitudes towards sport for social mobility, especially for office works, have become more of an issue. The relationship between the attitudes and the level of happiness towards sport of 190 academic staff who have been working actively in Aydın Adnan Menderes University in 2019 has been examined in this study. In this sense, "the attitude scale towards sport",which has been develop and performed in teams of validity and reliability by Şentürk (2012), to determine the attitude level towards sport and "Oxford Happiness Scale-short form" which has been developed by Hill and Argly (2002) and adjusted into Turkish by Doğan and Çötok (2011), to specify the happiness level have been used. The acquired data fort his purpose were repertod according to the analysis results of t-test, one way anova, post-hoc (tukey test) which are situated in SPSS (Statistical Package for Social Science) 21.0 package programme. In consequence of the acquired results; considering sub-dimension of attitude towards sport, the attitudes level ın sub-dimension of "being interested in sports and living with it has been specified as being low while the attituds level in sub-dimension of "Doing exercise actively" has been determined higher. It has been abserved that academicians had exhibited attitude above average when we generally look at the attitude scale towards sport, tahat is, their attitudes level towards sport has been defined as being high. As regards to their happiness level, they has had an attitude below the average, thus, it has been determined that their happiness level as being low. As fort he general consideration, it has been detected that there is no significant relation between the attitude towards sport and happines level. Keywords: Academician, Happiness, Sport, Attitude, University