Examining the level of shyness and self-esteem in secondary school students who do and do not sports

This research was conducted to examine the self-esteem and shyness of the students who do sports and who do not. A total of 510 students (296 girls and 214 boys) who were educated at secondary level participated in the study voluntarily. An information form was created to determine the self-esteem, shyness and descriptive knowledge of the students. In order to measure self-esteem, the self-esteem scale developed by Stanley Coopersmith (1967) and used by Turkish adaptation Aksoy (1992) and Pişkin (1997) was used to determine the level of shyness by Cheek and Buss (1990) and adapted to Turkish by Güngör (2001) "Shyness Scale" was used. SPSS23 package program was used for the analysis of the obtained data. Descriptive analyzes of self-esteem and shyness and descriptive information were applied. For the comparison of binary groups, t-test and ANOVA test were used for comparison of more than two groups. Pearson correlation analysis was used to determine whether there was a significant relationship between self-esteem and shyness. A statistically significant difference was found in the comparison of the gender of the students with shyness (t2,619, p=0,009<0,05). There were statistically significant differences between the students' behaviors and shyness analysis (F20,603, p=0,000<0,05). A statistically significant difference was found in the case of shyness among sportsmen and non-sportsmen (t3,198, p=0,001<0,05). As a result, it was observed that the students doing sports were less shy than the students who did not do sports. In addition, students' self-esteem and shyness were found to be inversely proportional to each other. Keywords: Self-Esteem, Shyness, Secondary School Students, Sport