Comparing Sports Psychology Student's Attitudes Towards Their Field of Study with Other Psychology Students'

The present research aims to compare the attitudes of sport psychology university students towards their field of study with those of other trends in psychology. The statistical sample consisted of 154 MA students in Sports Psychology، General Psychology، Industrial Psychology in Islamic Azad University، Isfahan branch. The instrument of the study was a researcher-made questionnaire which included two sections: demographic characteristics and attitude towards of study. The face validity and content validity of this instrument were established by eight experts from department of psychology and physical education. One-way ANOVA، Scheffe post hoc test، and independent samples t-test were used for the data analysis. The results showed that the attitude towards field of study was more negative among the sport psychology university students than the general psychology university students. The attitude towards field of study among the students in higher semesters and students in related fields was more negative than among the students in lower semester and students in non-related fields.