Impact of Sport-related Games on High School Students’ Communication Skills

• Authors: Ozden Tepekoylu , Selhan Ozbey , Hatice Camliyer
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

In Recent studies underline the fact that adolescents are, at many times, likely to experience serious communication problems with their families and close environments. So, the aim of this study is to determine positive impact of sport-related games, which are performed as extracurricular activities, on high school students’ communication skills. In the study, pre, & post-tests was utilized with the control group’s experimental patterns. Two participant groups were made up of totally 30 high school students, 15 of whom would be in the experimental group and the rest of whom were in the control group. The former group was given sport- related 20 applications for 10 weeks during which the latter group would not deal with any extracurricular activities. Meanwhile, before and after the applications, data was collected by means of “The Communication Skills Scale” which was developed by Korkut (1996) and then analysed through “two-way ANCOVA” test techniques. Results clarify that the considerable gap in scores of the students’ pre, & post-tests perception concerning their communication skills are clearly attributed to sport-related games and it was also established that scores of the students in the experimental group were meaningfully higher than ones in the control group. However, perception of communication skills in the both groups was not significantly different by sex of the students. Moreover, the common effect of sex and participation on sport- related games was not found statistically meaningful in terms of communication skills. Consequently, it could be said that sport-related games impact positively communication skills.

Keywords

EN

extracurricular activities; communication skills; sport-related games; high school students

• Publisher: De Gruyter Open
• Journal: Physical Culture and Sport. Studies and Research
• Year: 2015
• Volume: 67
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 53-64

Dates

published

1 - 9 - 2015

received

10 - 2 - 2015

online

26 - 11 - 2015

accepted

28 - 4 - 2015

Contributors

author

Ozden Tepekoylu

• Ozturk Faculty of Sport Sciences Pamukkale University 20020 Kınklı/ Denizli/ Turkey
• Pennsylvania State University, USA
• acquisition of data
• analysis and interpretation of data
• manuscript preparation

author

Selhan Ozbey

• University of Valencia, Spain
• conception and design of the study
• manuscript preparation

author

Hatice Camliyer

• University of Valencia, Spain
• conception and design of the study

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Identifiers

DOI

10.1515/pcssr-2015-0017