Open AccessDetermination of Spreading Motive Levels of Elite Hearing-impaired Sportsmen
Author(s) -
Osman Kusan,
Hasan Erdem Mumcu,
Abdulkerim Çeviker,
Ömer Zambak,
Onur Öztürk
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
sport şi societate
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2344-3693
pISSN - 1582-2168
DOI - 10.36836/uaic/fefs/10.34
Subject(s) - athletes , deci , psychology , turkish , audiology , elite athletes , physical therapy , medicine , linguistics , philosophy , autonomy , political science , law
This study was conducted to investigate the sub-scales of sports instructions of elite athletes with hearing impairment orhearing loss due to different reasons. A total of 173 hearing-impaired athletes constituted of 54 female and 119 male athletes whoare active national team athletes in the age range of 15-25 years. The study was conducted based on Self Determination Theory ofDeci and Ryan [9] and on the developed Sports Motivation Scale, Pelletier et al. [24] Kazak [18] applied the validity and reliabilityof the scale for Turkish athletes. Accordingly, since the p_values calculated for the inner motivation sub-scale and its sub-scalesare less than the value of α = .05 which is taken as the level of significance, there is a statistically significant difference in theaverage scores of the hearing-impaired athletes in their internal motivations and sub-scales. According to gender and educationalstatus, there was no difference in the motivation of the hearing-impaired athletes. According to the age variable, it was seen thatolder athletes had more external connections. Considering the general motivation scores, the athletes in tennis and swimming wereless motivated than others. Elite hearing-impaired athletes are affected by both internal and external impulses. However, internalmotivation scores are higher than the external. Internal motivation scores are seen as the lowest in the branch swimming area.