摘要：The current study focused on exploring attitudes towards sportive activities of mentally disabled individuals shown by the 1st and 4th year candidate teachers who studied at teaching departments of Education Faculty and Sports Sciences Faculty of Muğla Sıtkı Koçman University during 2015-2016 academic year. In the study; a general survey model was used. “Personal Information Form” designed by the researchers and “Attitude Scale of Individuals Having Mental Disabilities towards Sports Activities (ASIHMDSA)” designed by İlhan, Esentürk and Yarımkaya (2016) were administered to the participants. Attitudinal levels of the participants were compared in relation to sex, academic grade, presence of a disabled member in the family, witnessing sportive activities of the disabled and receiving sports education for the disabled during their education. Sample of the study was consisted of a total of 560 candidate teachers who volunteered to join the study (336 female candidate teachers and 224 male candidate teachers). Mann-Whitney U was used for data analyses. As far as the study-findings were concerned, there were no statistically significant differences in participants’ level of attitudes towards sportive activities of mentally disabled individuals in terms of sex, witnessing sportive activities of the disabled, presence of a disabled member in the family and academic grades (P>0.05). However, in the comparisons statistically significant differences were found in terms of receiving sports education for the disabled during their education and faculty types (P0,05). Buna karşılık, eğitimleri içerisinde, engellilere yönelik spor eğitimi alma değişkeni ve öğrenim gördükleri fakülteler açısından yapılan karşılaştırmada, istatistiksel olarak anlamlı düzeyde farklılık tespit edilmiştir (P<0,05). Sonuç olarak, zihinsel engellilerin spor etkinliklerine yönelik tutum düzeyinin arttırılabilmesi için, öğretmen adaylarının eğitimleri içerisinde Engellilerde Spor dersi almalarının, pozitif yönde bir etkiye sahip olabileceği söylenebilir.
