Author(s): Tülin ATAN, Åaban ÃNVER, Hayati ARSLAN
The purpose of this study is to compare the shyness levels of students attending the Faculty of Sport Sciences and the Faculty of Education. A total of 300 students, 150 attending the Faculty of Sport Sciences and 150 attending the Faculty of Education, participated in the study. A demographic information form (including questions about faculty, gender, year of education, family’s monthly income, where students lived, state of living with the parents, state of being satisfied with the faculty and place of stay) and “Shyness Scale” developed by Güngör (2001) to find out students’ states of shyness were used in the study. The highest score one can get from the scale is 100, while the lowest score is 20. A higher score means that the individual perceives himself/herself as shy. The average scores of the students in the Faculty of Education were found to be higher than the scores of the students in the Faculty of Sport Sciences (p<0.05). The average scores of female students were found to be higher than the scores of male students (p<0.01). The average scores of fourth year students were found to be lower than the scores of first, second and third year students (p<0.0125). The average scores of students whose families had lower than 2500 TL monthly income were found to be higher than the scores of students whose families had higher than 2501 TL monthly income (p<0.01). No statistically significant difference was found between students’ shyness levels in terms of where they lived (village/town, district, province) (p>0.0166). No statistically significant difference was found between students’ average shyness level scores in terms of the state of living with the parents (p>0.05), or being satisfied with the faculty they were attending (p>0.05). The average shyness levels of the students staying with the family or in the dormitory were found to be higher than those staying alone in a house, while the average scores of those staying in a dormitory were higher than those staying with friends in a house (p<0.0125). As a conclusion, students of the faculty of education were found to be shyer than students of the faculty of sport sciences; students in their first, second, third year were found to be shyer than students in their fourth year and students whose families had poor financial situation were found to be shyer than students whose families had good financial situation.
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