EFFECT OF PHYSICAL ACTIVITY PROGRAM ON MOTIVATION AND ATTENTION LEVELS OF STUDENTS AGES 15-18

Abstract

The aim of this study is to investigate whether swimming is effective on the motivation and attention levels of high school students between the ages of 15-18 for a physical activity program. For this purpose, 100 students from Fatih Vocational and Technical Anatolian High School and Private Şahin Anatolian High School in Sakarya Province voluntarily participated and student groups in both schools were divided into experimental and control groups. Sports Specific Achievement Motivation Scale and Burdon Attention Scale were applied to the students in both schools as pre and post-test. The data obtained in the research, which was carried out with an experimental and sequential pattern method, were analyzed in the SPSS program and the significance level was taken as 0.05. In order to compare the pre-test results and post-test results of the experimental and control groups, Mann Whitney U-test in independent groups and Wilcoxon Signed Ranks test independent groups were applied. As a result of the research, there was a statistically significant difference between the motivation of the experimental group, the pretest results and the post-test results, and the post-test results of the experimental group and the control group. In the attention level results, a statistically significant difference was found between the attention level pretest results of the experimental group and the posttest results of the experimental group and the posttest results of the control group. No statistically significant difference was found between the pretest results of the control groups and the pretest results of the control groups of motivation and attention levels. Research results show that the 8-week physical activation program positively affects high school students' motivation and attention levels.