Building and applying the attitudes scale of female students at the University of Mosul towards practicing physical sports activity according to some objective variables

Abstract

The importance of the current research lies in identifying the attitudes of female students at the University of Mosul, with its scientific and humanitarian colleges, towards practicing physical sports activity, as well as identifying the most important reasons for female students ’exclusion from practicing sports activities at the university.

The current research aims to: -

Building a measure of attitudes of female students at the University of Mosul towards the practice of sports and physical activity.

- Knowing the level of female students at the University of Mosul, with its scientific and humanitarian colleges, in the scale of attitudes towards the practice of sporting and physical activity.

The researcher assumes the following:

- There are no statistically significant differences between female students of scientific and humanitarian colleges in attitudes towards practicing sports and physical activity.

The researcher used the descriptive approach in both survey and comparative methods for their suitability and the nature of the current research.

The research sample consisted of (500) female students distributed on building, application, exploratory and stability samples.

The researcher followed the correct scientific steps in building standards to extract the validity and reliability of the scale, and then applied the scale to the application sample and extracted the results.

The researcher concluded several conclusions, the most important of which are:

Building a measure of attitudes of female students at the University of Mosul towards practicing sports and physical activity in its scientific and humanitarian faculties, which consists of (52) items that are valid and steadfast.

The researcher recommended several recommendations, the most important of which are:

- Adopting the standardized scale in evaluating the attitudes of female students at the University of Mosul, which forms a periodical at specific intervals to identify the extent of the progress of the students' attitudes towards practicing sports.