Bora Özkara

Karadeniz Technical University · Vocational School of Physical Education and Sports

This study aims to investigate the nutritional ergogenic aids attitudes levels of the active Turkish kickboxers in terms of gender, competition weight, competition category, education status, income levels, and the status of the kickboxers whether international athletes or not. The Attitude Scale toward Nutritional Sports Supplements (ATNSS) was us...

z: Bu araştırmanın amacı lise düzeyinde eğitim gören sporcu öğrencilerin psikolojik sağlamlık düzeylerinin cinsiyet, yaş, lise türü, spor branşı(bireysel ve takım sporları) ve ebeveyn sporculuk deneyimleri değişkenleri açısından ince-lenmesidir. Araştırmanın örneklemi 2016-2017 eğitim öğretim döneminde Trab-zon ilinde gerçekleştirilen okul sporları...

Çeviklik sportif performansı etkileyen en önemli belirleyicilerden birisidir. Çeviklik, uyarana karşı tepki olarak verilen, tüm vücudun katılımını gerektiren, hızlı hareket edebilme, dengeyi koruma ve yön değiştirme gibi becerileri uyumlu bir şekilde gerçekleştirebilme yeteneği olarak tanımlanabilir. Çeviklik, diğer sportif becerilere göre daha kar...

The purpose of this study is to test the validity and reliability of the Body Coordination Test for Children (Körperkoordinationstest für Kinder – KTK) in a sample of Turkish children. The KTK developed in 1974 and revised in 2007 by Kiphard and Schilling assesses the motor coordination of children aged 5 to 14 years. The sample consisted of 202 mi...

Different countries differently address the physical education needs of disabled children. Some focus only on the classroom learning hence equipping the children with little knowledge on physical education. Others lack the facilities to facilitate the physical education of the disabled. This has led to an increased number of the disabled with littl...

Research findings about which learning style works better are not consistent. However, learning styles are known to be generally associated with learning and to support improvement in some learning outcomes. This study aims to determine learning styles of sports high school students and to examine these styles with respect to overall academic succe...

The foundations of modern physical education in Turkey have been defined using arrangements of European countries. In general, it has been determined that European standards are taken into account as criteria when physical education is generally assessed. The evaluation of this development should also be made with scientific studies. It cannot be s...

Annotation: It is known that feeling of shyness is an important factor that influences relationship among people. A number of studies have been done in order to make people more sociable, social and minimize of this feeling or sense. In this context the aim of the research is to examine physical education and sport school students’ shyness levels i...

Background: In the present study, subjective vitality considered to be one of the contributions provided by participation in physical activity is examined on a sample of pre-service teachers. When teachers who are important part of education system are healthy and fit, it will help to build future generations. Materials: The research was conducted...

Background. It is clear that happiness is the aim for individuals living in a highly demanding society. Although much behaviour may result in perceived subjective happiness, it is thought that physical activity is one of such factors. In this respect, the aim of this study was to investigate participants’ subjective happiness as a result of their l...

Background. Existing research indicates that both teachers and prospective teachers who are physically active in comparison with inactive generally easier cope with physical and psychosocial problems. This topic, particularly psychosocial development of individuals and their participation in sports, has attracted the attention of researchers in re...

The purpose of this study is to examine physical activity participation levels and obesity status of academic staff depending on the data on gender, age, martial status, years of employment and academic title. Study group of this research consists of 290 academic staff (163 men and 127 women) in Karadeniz Technical University in 2015-2016 academic...

This study aims to determine the dominant learning styles of student athletes and investigate these styles in respect to alma mater and academic achievement. The study’s sample group consists of 482 student athletes (350 studying at secondary education/high school, 132 studying at higher education/university). Kolb Learning Style Inventory-III (LSI...

The purpose of this study is to examine physical activity participation levels and obesity status of academic staff depending on the data on gender, age, martial status, years of employment and academic title. Study group of this research consists of 290 academic staff (163 men and 127 women) in Karadeniz Technical University in 2015-2016 academic...

Background. It is known that there are multiple associations between physical activity and psychology for human health. One of these associations is social appearance anxiety. Social appearance anxiety is a feeling of distress associated with the perceived evaluation of one’s physical self. Some individuals feel relatively little anxiety over this...

Objective: The purpose of the present study was to investigate pre-service physical education teachers’ social entrepreneurial characteristics in respect to some variables. Method: Study group of this research consists of 230 pre-service teachers who study physical education and sports department in Karadeniz Technical University. To this aim, indi...

Bu calismanin amaci spor bilimleri alaninda egitim alan universite ogrencilerin yasam doyum duzeylerinin bazi degiskenlere gore arastirilmasidir. Bu amacla 2014-2015 egitim-ogretim yilinda Agri Ibrahim Cecen Universitesi, Afyon Kocatepe Universitesi, Dumlupinar Universitesi ve Karadeniz Teknik Universitesinde ogrenim goren toplam 254 ogrenciye kisi...