Author(s): Hamza Ali GÖKALP Ahmet Haktan SİVRİKAYA
The purpose of this study is to investigate the communication skills of students in the School of Physical Education and Sports. Thisstudy is cross-sectional type. Population of the study composed of 500 students and entire population composed of 406 students. The independent variables were age, gender, department, grade, doing sports, maternal and paternal educational levels, whether the mother is the biological mother or not, and mother is alive or not, dependent variable was communication skill levels. In the study, socio-demographic characteristics and communication skills evaluation scale was used. Numbers, percentage, ANOVA, tTest were used to evaluate the data. The participants, 57.6% were male, 57.1% were between 21-23 years old, 24.9% were seniors, 31.3% were in the teacher training department, 11.8% were doing sports. The students' mean scale score was 100.01±14.24. Statistically significant differences in communication skill levels were found between students in the sports management department who are licensed and doing sports regularly, and whose mothers are biological mothers and alive. The students’ communication skill levels were high. The females’ mean communication skills score was higher than male students. The communication skills of students whose mothers were alive and their biological mothers and who were doing sports were higher
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