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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF EDUCATION TECHNOLOGY AND SCIENTIFIC RESEARCHES, vol.8, no.22, pp.910-926, 2023 (Peer-Reviewed Journal)
Building the sports culture on the right foundations and adopting all the values and gains of
sports to the society depends primarily on the creation of sports awareness in every part of the
society. This study was carried out with the aim of "investigation of sports awareness levels of
individuals who regularly do sports in terms of various variables". In the research, scanning model
was used. While the population of the study consisted of individuals living in the province of
Ankara, doing and not doing sports regularly, the sample of the study consisted of 606 people
selected by random sampling method from the specified universe. The data in the research were
collected through the personal information form, which includes participants demographic
information and the Sports Awareness Scale developed by Uyar and Sunay (2020). In the data
analysis, descriptive statistics and arithmetic means were examined, and the t-test and One Way
Anova tests were used for the differences between the groups. The reliability of the scale was
checked with the Cronbach Alpha coefficient. In the study, it was observed that there were
statistically significant differences in all variables of doing sports regularly, gender, having a
regular income-generating job, age and educational status. As a result, it has been observed that
the sports awareness levels of individuals who regularly do sports are higher than those who do
not.