Attitudes toward physical education and class preferences of Turkish adolescents in terms of school gender composition

Adolescence

Volumn 40, Issue 158, 2005, Pages 365-375

  Koca, Canan ^a   Aşçi, F Hülya ^a   Demirhan, Giyasettin ^b  

^a BASKENT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b School of Sport Sciences and Technology   (Turkey)

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Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PHYSICAL EDUCATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; SCHOOL; SELF CONCEPT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEX RATIO; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; STUDENT; TURKEY (REPUBLIC);

ADOLESCENT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PHYSICAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING; QUESTIONNAIRES; SCHOOLS; SELF CONCEPT; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SEX FACTORS; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; STUDENTS; TURKEY;

EID: 23744435169     PISSN: 00018449     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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