A Study Upon the Courage Perception Of Athletes Who Participated to the Elections for National Team (The Case of East Anatolia Region)

A Study Upon the Courage Perception Of Athletes Who Participated to the Elections for National Team (The Case of East Anatolia Region)

The aim of this research is to compare sub-dimensions of courage scale in sports which are competence-proficiency,determination, boldness, taking risk and being self-sacrificing in sports according to various demographic values of boxersparticipating in senior national team selections held in Eastern Anatolia. Sample group of the study consists of 61 boxersparticipating in national team selections. In the research, personal information form for participants and scale of courage insports developed by Konter and Johan (10) were used. Boxers' ages, types of residences where they live, educational status,occupations of their parents, income levels, sport ages and athlete status were compared with the sub-dimensions of the scale.SPSS 22.0 Windows program was used to analyze data obtained. As a result of normality tests, it was determined that the datawere not distributed normally. Because of this reason, while non-parametric Kruskal Wallis H test was used in the study, MannWhitney U test was used to compare sub-dimension scores of scale according to mother's educational status. Significance levelwas accepted as

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