INVESTIGATION OF THE DECISION REGRETS OF THE GRADUATES AND STUDENTS OF THE FACULTY OF SPORTS SCIENCES IN THE SELECTION OF THE DEPARTMENT

Abstract

The aim of this study is to examine the decision regrets of the graduates and students of the Faculty of Sport Sciences in their department selection. The population of the research consists of the students studying at the Faculties of Sport Sciences and the graduates of the Faculty of Sport Sciences. The study group of the research is 765 (373 Male, 392 Female) randomly selected among students and graduates studying at Bayburt University, Bartın University, Dokuz Eylül University and Hitit University, Department of Physical Education and Sports Education, Sports Management, Coaching Education and Recreation in the 2021-2022 academic year. ) consists of voluntary participants. The "Professional Decision Regret Scale" developed by Brehaut et al. (2003) and adapted into Turkish by Erdurcan and Kırdök (2017) and the "Personal Information Form" created by the researcher were used to collect the data of the research. The analyzes of the obtained data were made using the SPSS 26 package program. After it was determined that the data were normally distributed in the analysis, independent sample t-test analysis, One-way ANOVA analysis, and Scheffe analyzes were performed to reveal the difference between groups. As a result, statistically significant differences were found in all of the variables of gender, department, class, factor of choosing the department, order of preference of the department and working status in their own field in order to determine the difference between the decision regret levels of the participants in the selection of the department.