The Effect of Climbing as a Recreational Event on Adolesent’s Locus of Control

The aim of this study was to determine the effect of experience of the secondary education (class 10th and 11th) students? participation on artificial wall climbing referred to experiential learning education and defined as high activity on their locus of control. Artifical wall climbing is a learning point beyond the sport activity that give an opportunity to participants recognize their own limits and others and do they active not passive. This study was done as pretest-posttest control group with quasi-experimental model and the data were collected using ? Nowicki-Strickland Locus of Control Scale? adapted to Turkish by Yeşilyaprak (1988). In this research, 90 students (40 female, 50 male) aged 17,75±1.06 participated voluntery and divided in two groups as a trail and control group randomly. Trial group participated artifcial wall climbing twice a week, totel six weeks. During this time period the control group not join any activity has continued to normal life. As a result of the statistical analysis, no significant differences were found between control and trial groups pretest scores (p>0.05). No significant differences were found between pre and post-test scores of control group (p>0.05), significant differences were found between pre and post-test scores of trial group (p<0.05). Statistics of independent variable gender for trial group were that between pre-test scores were found significant differences (p<0.05), between post-test scores no significant differences (p>0.05) and no significant differences between the difference of the differences (p>0.05). Consequently, it could be said that the articifal wall climbing activities has a positive efect on the participants? locus of control, it caused a movement from out side to inside. And it has a significant effect on gender differences, that women have more gain than men.