Examining the relationship between school alienation and loneliness levels of faculty of sports sciences students

Year 2024, Volume: 6 Issue: 1, 52 - 62, 05.07.2024

Şakir Serbes , Murat Aslan

Abstract

Although university life is a period that contributes to the academic and social development of the individual and shapes career plans, it can also bring some negative experiences. Among these negative experiences, factors such as alienation from school and loneliness are perhaps the factors that affect university students the most. For this reason, the current study aimed to examine the relationship between school alienation and loneliness levels of sports science students. In this research, in which the relational screening method was used, the relationship between school alienation and loneliness levels of sports science students was tested with the structural equation model. 204 students studying at the Faculty of Sports Sciences participated in the research. The research data are the "University Alienation Scale" developed by Kurtulmuş, Kaçire, Karabıyık and Yiğit (2015) and the "Loneliness Scale" developed by Russell (1996), revised by Wongpakaran et al., (2020) and adapted to Turkish culture by İnanç and Ekşi (2022). It was obtained using the “scale”. Confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) was conducted to determine the suitability of the scales used within the scope of the research to the structural model. Skewness and kurtosis values were checked for the normality assumption of the data, and the relationship between school alienation and loneliness level was tested with Pearson correlation and SEM analysis. As a results, it was determined that there was a positive significant relationship between the loneliness and school alienation levels of sports science students, and alienation scores significantly predicted loneliness scores (β = 0.476, z = 6.17, P = 0.001).

Keywords

Alienation from school, sports sciences, university students, loneliness.

Spor bilimleri fakültesi öğrencilerinin okula yabancılaşma ve yalnızlık düzeyleri arasındaki ilişkinin incelenmesi

Abstract

Üniversite yaşamı bireyin akademik ve sosyal açıdan gelişimine katkıda bulunan ve kariyer planlarını şekillendiren bir dönem olmakla birlikte bazı olumsuz deneyimleri de beraberinde getirebilmektedir. Bu olumsuz deneyimler içerisinde okula yabancılaşma ve yalnızlık gibi unsurlar üniversite öğrencilerini en çok etkileyen unsurlar olarak karşımıza çıkmaktadır. Bu sebeple mevcut araştırmada spor bilimleri öğrencilerinin okula yabancılaşma ve yalnızlık düzeyleri arasındaki ilişkinin incelenmesi amaçlanmıştır. İlişkisel tarama yönteminin kullanıldığı bu araştırmada spor bilimleri öğrencilerinin okula yabancılaşma ve yalnızlık düzeyleri arasındaki ilişki yapısal eşitlik modeli ile sınanmıştır. Araştırmaya spor bilimleri fakültesinde öğrenim gören 204 öğrenci katılmıştır. Araştırma verileri Kurtulmuş, Kaçire, Karabıyık ve Yiğit (2015) tarafından geliştirilen “Üniversite Yabancılaşma Ölçeği” ile Russell (1996) tarafından geliştirilen, Wongpakaran vd., (2020) tarafından revize edilen ve İnanç ve Ekşi (2022) tarafından Türk kültürüne uyarlanan “Yalnızlık Ölçeği” ile elde edilmiştir. Kullanılan ölçeklerin yapısal modele uygunluğunun belirlenmesi için doğrulayıcı faktör analizi (DFA) yapılmıştır. Verilerin normallik varsayımı için çarpıklık ve basıklık değerlerine bakılmış, okula yabancılaşma ve yalnızlık düzeyi arasındaki ilişki pearson korelasyon ve YEM analizi ile test edilmiştir. Sonuç olarak spor bilimleri öğrencilerinin yalnızlık ve okula yabancılaşma düzeyleri arasında pozitif yönde anlamlı bir ilişki olduğu, yabancılaşma puanlarının yalnızlık puanlarını anlamlı (β=0.476, z=6.17, P=0.001) bir şekilde yordadığı tespit edilmiştir.

Keywords

Okula yabancılaşma, spor bilimleri, üniversite öğrencileri, yalnızlık.

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