Examination of secondary school students' levels of resilience to distress in terms of sportive and different variables

The purpose of this research is to examine the level of endurance of secondary school students in terms of sportive activity and different variables. The universe of this research consists of 11966 students between the ages of 15-18, studying in 29 secondary education institutions in the city center of Ağrı in the 2022-2023 academic year. The sample of the study consists of 1143 volunteer students, 675 women and 468 men, selected by random sampling method. In order to obtain the data of the research, the "Personal Information Form" consisting of 10 items and the "Difficulty Endurance Scale" were used. In the research, before the data obtained through the scales can be analyzed, studies related to the processing of the data were carried out. For this, first of all, the demographic information form applied to the students and the distress tolerance scale data were checked in detail. The data suitable for the research were transferred to digital media and the SPSS 25.0 package program was used in the analysis of the data. In the analysis of the data, descriptive statistical analyzes such as frequency, arithmetic mean, mode, median, standard deviation were performed as a priority. Then, mode, median and arithmetic mean, skewness and kurtosis values were examined to determine whether the data showed a normal distribution. In normally distributed data, parametric tests, "T-test for Independent Samples" to determine the differentiation between two different independent variables and sub-dimensions of the distress tolerance scale, one-way variance (anova) to determine the differentiation between more than two different independent variables and the distress tolerance scale sub-dimensions. ) analysis, "Pearson correlation" analyzes were performed to determine the relationship between students' ages, family monthly income levels, total weekly sportive activity and years of doing sportive activity, and sub-dimensions of the scale of endurance, and the results were evaluated according to the p<.050 significance level. According to the findings, it was concluded that there was a significant difference between the genders in the tolerance sub-dimension in the mean scores of the sub-dimensions of the distress tolerance scale of the students participating in the research. In the tolerance sub-dimension, it was found that male students' level of resilience to distress was higher than that of female students. In other sub-dimensions, no significant difference was found between the genders. Considering that different results may be obtained, it has been suggested that it would be beneficial to support the research findings by working with different sample groups. Keywords: Endurance of Distress, Sportive Activity, Secondary Students