The analysis of the thinking styles and creativity of the sports students studying in the different fields of university

Abstract

This study analyzes the creativity and thinking levels of athletes studying at the different college departments; 61 female and 75 male athletes, a total of 136 ice-hockey players have participated in the research. As data collection tools, Thinking Styles Inventory and The Creativity Scale have been used in the study. SPSS 15.0 for Windows statistics analysis program has been used for the analysis of the collected data. At the end of the analysis of the collected data, we observed that males use the thinking styles more significantly than do females (p<0, 05). In addition to this, it has been determined that there are significant differences in using the thinking styles among athletes, according to fields of study. It has been observed that while social sciences students are using a hierarchical thinking style, the science students are dominantly using legislative, and the sports science students are using the internal thinking style. It has been seen that males have significantly better creative styles than do females (p<0, 05), and the sports science students are significantly better with creative styles than other fields of study (p<0, 05). It has been determined that while some thinking styles are improving creativity, some others are decreasing it. In addition, it has been seen that the ages and genders of the participants have no significant effect on creativity (p<0, 05). Key words: Creative, thinking styles, sport.