Determination of University Students' Attitudes Toward Reading Habit

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to determine The Pamukkale University-School of Sport Science and Technology students' attitudes toward reading habit and to analyze the differences among students' attitudes in terms of gender and department. Total of 233 students [85 female ((X) over bar (Age) = 21.42 +/- 1.77) - 148 male ((X) over bar (Age) = 21.76 +/- 1.96)] who studying Department of Physical Education (n= 121), Recreation (n= 49) and Trainer Education (n= 63), participated the study voluntarily. "The Attitude Scale Towards Reading Habit (alpha= 0.88)" which contains 30 statements (21 positive-9 negative) and developed by Gomleksiz (2004a), completed as instrument to gather data. According to the results, it was found that female students' attitudes ((X) over bar =120.91 +/- 17.639) were more positive than male students ((X) over bar 115.35 +/- 17.014). According to data analyzed, it was determined that there is only one significant difference in sub-scale of "love" according to department between Department of Physical Education and Trainer Education in favour of Physical Education students (p<0.05).