Evaluation of Perspectives of Marmara University and Istanbul University Faculty of Sport Sciences Students Toward Reading Habit

In this study, it was aimed to examine the perspectives and attitudes of students of sports sciences faculty of reading books. In this process, 86 female (40.2%) and 128 (59.8%) male students from Marmara and Istanbul Universities voluntarily participated. The data was collected through a ‘Demographic Information Form？ developed by the researcher and ‘The Attitude Scale towards Reading Habit’. The level of significance for all statistical procedures was taken as 0.05. All the statistical analyses were made through SPSS package program. For analysing the data, Descriptive Statistics (frequencies (f), percentage (%), Mean), t-test, ANOVA and Mann Whitney U tests were used. The results of the study showed that the students who studied Sports of Science had positive attitude towards benefit of reading. Furthermore, the results showed that sports science students didn't like reading books