Ovidius University Annals, Series Physical Education and Sport / SCIENCE, MOVEMENT AND HEALTH Vol. XV, ISSUE 2 Supplement, 2015, Romania The journal is indexed in: Ebsco, SPORTDiscus, INDEX COPERNICUS JOURNAL MASTER LIST, DOAJ DIRECTORY OF OPEN ACCES JOURNALS, Caby, Gale Cengace Learning, Cabell’s Directories 627 Science, Movement and Health, Vol. XV, ISSUE 2 Supplement, 2015 September 2015, 15 (2, Supplement): 627-634 Original article EXAMINATION OF HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS’ SPORTSMANLIKE CONDUCTS IN PHYSICAL EDUCATION LESSONS ACCORDING TO SOME VARIABILITY OĞUZ KAAN ESENTÜRK 1 , EKREM LEVENT İLHAN 1 , OKAN BURÇAK ÇELİK 1 Abstract Aim: This research aims to analyze the high school students’ sportsmanlike conducts in physical education according to different variability (age, education status of parents, situation of playing sports licensed and branch of sport). Methods: The research is consisted of 231 students (138 female, 93 male) studying in 2 different high schools in Çarşıbaşı, Trabzon. 59.7% of the study group is female, 40.3% of the study group is male. Survey method was used in this research. ‘’ Physical Education Lesson Sportsmanlike Conduct Scale’’ developed by Koc (2014) was used with the purpose of collecting data. Scale is two-dimensional [1. dimension, 11 articles ‘’Avoiding Improper Conducts’’ (AIC), 2. dimension, 11 articles ‘’Displaying Proper Conducts’’ (DPC)] and in total there are 22 articles. In this research, for internal consistency reliability of the whole scale, Cronbach Alpha coefficient was calculated as 0.89. Acquired data were analyzed in SPSS 17.0 package program. Frequency, percentage analysis, arithmetic average, standard deviation, independent t-test and one-way analysis of variance were used for the analysis of research data; meaningfulness level of the difference among variabilities was tested at the level of 0.05 and 0.001. Results: According to acquired analysis results, while meaningful relation between high school students’ sportsmanlike conducts in physical education lessons and age, situation of income of family, sport branches was figured out, it was determined that there was a meaningful difference in favor of female students in terms of gender varibilities (p<0.05). Meaningful relation between education status of parents and high school students’ sportsmanlike conducts in physical education lesson wasn’t found (p>0.05). Conclusions: As a result of research, it was seen that level of age is generally one of the important factors that affects the high school students’ sportsmanlike conducts in physical education lessons and it was concluded that when level of age increased, sportsmanlike conducts displayed in physical education lessons decreased. When considered analysis results in terms of the gender variability of high school students, it was determined that female students in comparison with male students displayed more sportsmanlike conducts in physical education lessons. Among branches, it can be said that high school students who play ‘’football’’ are more inclined to the unsportsmanlike conducts in physical education lessons. The fact that the meaningful relation couldn’t be found between educational status of parents and sportsmanlike conducts of high school students causes to think that the level of sportsmanlike conducts of students can be affected by other environmental factors rather than intra-familial learnings. Key words: high school students, physical education lesson, sportsmanship Behaviours. Introduction Physical education is a lesson which is an inseparable part of the education system and has the feature of the education system’s complement. In this lesson, individuals can find the opportunity of developing their other characteristics apart from the academic loadings in the classroom environment. Particularly, it is thought that this development shows itself in, mental, physical, spiritual and social domain. It is accepted that physical education lesson, which contributes to individual’s development as a whole, plays a role in interiorizing the concepts like especially sportsmanlike by individual. Because it can be said that these concepts appear frequently in physical education lessons. Accordingly, whether or not high school students display sportsmanlike conducts and whether or not these conducts are reached with content of physical education lesson are among the topics that should be researched. According to one of the oft-used definition, education is a process of creating a required behavioral change on individual through her/his life and intentional domestication (Demirel, 1999). Lately, the idea of educating humans as a whole rather than one-way development comes into prominence in the modern education systems. Particularly; after the 1 Gazi University, School of Physical Education and Sports, Ankara, TURKEY E-mail address: esenturk@gazi.edu.tr Received 27.02.2015 / Accepted 16.03.2015