Sports and physical activity as a preventative social support approach to loneliness and hopelessness of adolescents

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Adolescents at risk, loneliness, hopelessness, sports, physical activity, social support.

Abstract

As the first phase of a longitudinal study, this research explores the level of loneliness and hopelessness of 48 adolescents living in an orphanage and their counterparts (42) living in typical settings based on their involvement in sports and gender. T-test was conducted to identify differences among determined groups. Even though no meaningful differences were found among groups, variability in scores was notable in standard deviation (SD) scores when it comes to the degree of hopelessness based on gender and the degree of loneliness based on their involvement in sports and where they live.

 

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Author Biographies

  • Suad Sakallı Gümüş, Mustafa Kemal University

    Received her undergraduate degree from Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University as an elementary school teacher in 1995 and worked in the field for three years. Then, received her Special Education teaching Licensure and worked a year as a self-contained classroom teacher. In 1999 she was awarded with a full scholership by the Turkish Educational Ministry for her master's and doctoral level education in the US. She received her Master's degree from Indiana University (Bloomington) in 2003 and received her PhD from the same university in 2008. She still works as an assistant professor at Mustafa Kemal University. She is married and has two children.

  • Ayşegül Şükran Öz, Mustafa Kemal University
    She received her undergraduate degree in 1998 from Hacettepe University, on Childrens Health and Education. She worked as a research assistant at Suleyman Demirler University during 1998-1999 academic year. In 1999 she was awarded with a full scholership by the Turkish Educational Ministry for her master's and doctoral level education in the US. She received her Master's degree from Indiana University (Bloomington) in 2003 and received her PhD from the same university in 2008. She still works as an assistant professor at Mustafa Kemal University.
  • Hüseyin Kırımoğlu, Mustafa Kemal University

    Graduated from Konya Selcuk University in 1993. Worked at Nigde, Gaziantep, and Gazi Univerisities. In 2007 received his PhD from the Health Sciences Institute at Gazi University from the Department of Physical Education and Sports. Still works as an Assistant Professor at Mustafa Kemal University. 

     

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Published

02.07.2011

Issue

Vol. 8 No. 2 (2011)

Section

Education

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© Journal of Human Sciences. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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How to Cite

Sakallı Gümüş, S., Öz, A. Ş., & Kırımoğlu, H. (2011). Sports and physical activity as a preventative social support approach to loneliness and hopelessness of adolescents. Journal of Human Sciences, 8(2), 1-14. https://www.j-humansciences.com/index.php/IJHS/article/view/1307