A Comparison of Self-Esteem of Sports Sciences and Theology Faculty Students

The purpose of this study is to compare the differences in university students? self-esteem and psychosomatic symptoms in terms of some demographic variables. A total of 660 students- 334 female and 326 male-, who were randomly chosen from the students of Sport Sciences and Theology Faculties studying in Ondokuz Mayıs University during the academic year 2013-2014, participated in the study voluntarily. The data was collected through a “Demographic Information Form” developed by the researcher and “Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale” which was developed in 1963, checked for validity and reliability in 1965 in USA by Morris Rosenberg and checked for validity and reliability in Turkey by Çuhadaroğlu (1986). The data was statistically analyzed by Kolmogorov Smirnov, Mann Whitney U, Kruskal Vallis and Bonferronni correction test. The level of significance was taken as 0.05. The finding that there was no significant difference in the self-esteem levels of Sports Sciences Faculty students is in parallel with the findings of Yüksekkaya (1995:48) who reported that the variable of gender did not cause a significant difference on self-esteem. In the other result, it was seen a significant difference in sport science faculty students? scores when students? self-esteem compared to the level of the class variables but hasn?t seen in the faculty of theology. However, as noted in studies similar to our study, students' grade level progresses, levels of self-esteem increased. These findings were discussed in the light of literature and suggestions were made for future studies.