An examination of the education stress levels of the university students and their attitudes towards learning from the point of sports and different variables (Example of Ağrı province)

The aim of this research study is to examine the education stress levels of university students and their attitudes towards learning from the point of sports and different variables. This research is a field survey-type research model, which is one of the models of descriptive methods that aims to describe the past or existing situation with its current state of the moment. The research population is composed of the university students studying at Ağrı Ibrahim Çeçen University, Faculty of Education, Faculty of Science and Literature, Faculty of Islamic Sciences and School of Physical Education and Sports in Ağrı between the academic year 2016 and 2017. A total of 752 students, 374(49.7% ) females and 378 ( 50.3%) males, attended the study. As the data collection tool in the research, personal information form formed by the researcher to obtain the information related to the demographic qualities of the students, Education Stress Scale developed by Akın (2012) to determine whether they experience education stress and Attitude Scale Towards Learning developed by Kara (2010) to learn their attitudes towards learning were used. Data analysis was made using the SPSS 22.0 package program. As a result of this study, while a statistically significant relationship was found between the genders, ages, faculty/college of the university students and the levels of their education stress; there was not any statistically significant relationship between the way of education, class levels, status of doing sports, types of sports, purposes of sports and duration of sports and the education stress levels. According to another result of the study, while a statistically significant relationship was found between the genders, faculty/college, class levels of the university students, their status of doing sports and their attitudes towards learning, there was not any statistically significant relationship between their ages, way of education, types of sports, purposes of sports, duration of sports and their attitudes towards learning. As a result; while types of sports, purpose of sports, and duration of sports do not create a significant difference on the education stress levels of the university students and their attitudes towards learning, their status of doing sports creates a significant difference only on their attitudes towards learning and it does not create a significant difference on the levels of their education stress. In light of these results, the opinions, "awareness of sports should be raised more extensively in the young and their participation should be provided especially in the first periods of life when learning is performed and in educational institutions, the sports areas should be designed such that the university students can easily reach and join to increase their positive attitudes towards learning in the higher education institutions and activities such as seminars, scientific meetings and conferences should be arranged to inform that sports increase the attitudes of the university students towards learning in these institutions" can be offered as a suggestion. Key Words: Education, Stress, Learning, Attitude, Sports, University Students