ÜNİVERSİTE ÖĞRENCİLERİNİN FAİR-PLAY DAVRANIŞLARININ İNCELENMESİ

Abstract

The purpose of the study is to investigate the fair-play behaviors of university students and to determine the interest of the individuals who study at the faculty of sport sciences to the concept of fair-play.In accordance with this purpose, the study group of the research consists of 64 male, 46 female; a total of 110 student volunteers who study at Istanbul University-Cerrahpasa, Faculty of Sport Sciences. “Multidimensional Sportspersonship Orientation Scale” which was developed by Vallerand et al. (1997) and was adapted to Turkish by Balçıkanlı (2009) was used in order to measure the fair-play behavior of the participants. Shapiro-Wilk normality test was conducted to check whether the sub-dimensions of the scale distributed normally and it was found that not all of the sub-dimensions show a normal distribution(p<0.05). Consequently, Mann-Whitney U and Kruskal Wallis non-parametric tests were conducted to analyze the data. As a result, according to the sub-dimensions of the scale; statistically significant differences were found in the gender, age and grade variables, while no significant difference was found in the department variable. The study is supported by Turkish Modern Pentathlon Federation.