EFFECT OF THE PRIMARY SCHOOL 8TH GRADERS’ PARENTS’ ATTITUDE TOWARDS PSYCHOMOTOR SKILLS LEVEL

The aim of this research is finding out the correlation between the effects of the primary school 8^th graders’ parents’ attitude towards psychomotor skills levels. Research group is consisted of 113 female (49,3%) and 116 male (50,7%) totally 229 student, at 7 different schools in 8th grade in Aksaray. When defining parents attitudes, PSS ( ie. Parenting Styles Scale) , developed by (Sumer and Gungor 1999) and finalized by the additional items(28). In order to define the psychomotor skills of the students, the following tests are applied: For flexibility sit- reach test, vertical jumping test, agility (Z) test, 20 mt speed test and reaction test (visual- auditory). Correlation analysis is used to determine the relationship between parents’ attitudes and psychomotor skill levels and regression analysis is used to determine the correlation levels according to the data of parents’ attitudes and psychomotor skill levels and reliability analysis is used for the scale. As the result of the study, it’s seen that the parents’ attitudes cannot predict the psychomotor skills except reaction times and the authoritarian mothers have negative effects on reaction time