THE ATTITUDES OF 10-14 YEARS OLD CHILDREN AGAINST THE ACT OF PLAYING GAMES REQUIRING PHYSICAL ACTIVITY (PLAYFULNESS AMONG 10-14 YEARS OLD CHILDREN)

The objective of this study is to develop an assessment instrument directed to assessment of attitudes of children coming from 10 – 14 years old group against playing the games requiring physical activity. The scale constituted from 33 Article was applied totally on 1008 children and 499 of them are girls and 509 of them are boys who are taking high school education in Çankaya,Keçiören and Yenimahalle Districts of Ankara. Analysis of articles and exploratory factor analysis of the gathered data are implemented with the aim of ensuring the validity of structure and it is stated that the structure of the scale has five – factored sub structure constituted from 27 articles. These are named as “Game Passion”, “Social Adaptation”, “Desire to Play Game”, “The Will to win” and “Risk Taking”. The total variance rate of these five factors is 51, 291. As a prove of validity of article, article test correlations were calculated and the correlation coefficients are changing between 0,30 and 0,62. In order to determine the reliability level of the scale, Cronbach Alpha value was used. As a result of conducted calculation, it is seen that the alpha value for 27 articles is 0.82. The scale which is prepared in line with this value has high level of reliability. The alpha values in terms of factors, it can be stated that the first factor was calculated as 0,73; the second factor was calculated as 0,82; the third factor was calculated as 0,64; the fourth factor was calculated as 0,61 and the fifth factor was calculated as 0,63. As a conclusion, it is determined that the developed “Playfulness Scale” is a valid and reliable assessment instrument in determining the attitudes of middle – school student against playing the games requiring physical activity.