Examination of the Attitudes of Individuals Playing Folk Dances Towards Folk Dances

• Published in: Mediterranean journal of sport science 2024-03, Vol.7 (1), p.170-181
• Main Authors: Buyrukoğlu, Erhan, Karademir, Mehmet Bilgin, Yetkin, Murat
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• ISSN: 2667-5463; 2667-5463
• DOI: 10.38021/asbid.1388421

The purpose of this study is to investigate the attitudes of individuals who perform folk dances towards folk dances. 193 people who actively studied and performed folk dances at Alanya Aladdin Keykubat University participated voluntarily in our study. Tekkurşun Demir, Ozbek, and Gündüz (2022) established the validity and reliability of the Attitude Scale Towards Folk Dances (ASTFD), which was used in our study. In accordance with the 95% confidence interval, statistical frequency analysis, reliability coefficient calculations, the Mann Witney U test, and the Kruskal Wallis H test were conducted using the SPSS 25 package program. In the age variable of our research, the average age is close to each other, in the gender variable, women are more than men, graduate students are negative compared to undergraduate students, in the monthly income levels variable, individuals above the minimum wage are positive compared to individuals below the minimum wage, in the folk dance experience variable, individuals who receive 1-2 years of education and actively play folk dance are positive compared to individuals who are 3-4 years and 5 years and above. As a result, it was observed that According to the results of the Man Witney U Test conducted between the ages of the individuals and their Attitudes towards Folk Dances, there was a statistically significant difference in the scale total score and three sub-dimensions (p