MİLLİ TAKIM DÜZEYİNDEKİ ELİT BAYAN SPORCULARIN KİŞİSEL VE SOSYAL UYUM DÜZEYLERİ İLE BEDENLERİNİ ALGILAMA DÜZEYLERİNİN KARŞILAŞTIRILMASI

This research is about, the comparison of the personality and the level of perception to their bodies of national elite sportswomen.The survey is been carried out on 159 sportswomen, who joined national team camps of 7 different activities (basketball, handball, football, judo, karate, wrestling, and weight lifting).The method "questionnaire survey" has been used as data collection method. The data was been collected with, personal information questions consists of 9 item, Hacettepe personality inventory test consists of 168 item and a many-sided body-self criterion test. Hacettepe personality inventory was preferred, because of its proven scientific reliability. The many-sided body-self criterion test was been carried out only to a preliminary group of 80 sports students, because of its less use. In SPSS, the correlation value of each item was sufficient. The coefficient (cronbach alpha) for the reliability of the body-self criterion, was 0.92. The sportswomen, who joined this research, had significant differences in personal adaptation level values in correlation of the sport activity. According to the values, "adaptation problems" have been established in the adaptation level of weight lifting and wrestling sportswomen. The sportswomen, who joined this research, had high social adaptation level values and established as "well adjusted". The sportswomen, who joined this research, had a meaningful relationship between personal adaptation and body perception (r = 0.281; p<0.01). Body-self perception increases with personal adaptation. A significant relation between body-self perception and social adaptation had been established (r = 0,198; p<0.05). As personal adaptation raises so did social adaptation, and vice versa. From this point, as the body perception level increase so did the personal and social adaptation level. Body-self perception influences personal and social adaptation the same as personal and social adaptation did influence body-self perception.