Author(s): Seçkin DOĞANER, Murat GÖRMÜŞ, Mehmet Özgür KILIÇ
The aim of this study is to investigate the relationship between athletes' identity and general self-efficacy perceptions of athletes from various clubs in Ankara in terms of demographic variables. In the study; “Sportsman Identity Scale”, which developed from Brewer and Cornelius (2001) and adapted to Turkish by Öztürk and Koca (2013) and “General Self-Efficacy Scale” which developed from German by Schwarzer R. and Jerusalem M. (1979) and adapted to Turkish by Teközel M. (2002) was used. A total of 393 athletes from 19 sports clubs participated in the study. As a result of examining the scale forms, the data of 377 participants were included in the study. After the analysis of normality, parametric tests were decided and the findings were interpreted. According to the results of the study, it was found that female athletes had more performance and disability anxiety than male athletes. Participants over the age of 18 and having a longer training period were found to have higher perceptions of athlete identity and self-efficacy. In addition, the duration of the training and the year of doing sports were determined by the results of the research which brought about the fear of performance and disability among the participants. A statistically significant difference was found between the education level of the father with the perception of limitation in sports. The difference is about between high school graduate fathers. When the sports branches were examined, it was found that the participants in the badminton branch had more performance and disability anxiety than the tennis branch. As a result, physical activity was found to be effective in establishing a strong athlete identity in the participants and it was seen that as the perception of athlete identity increased, performance and disability-related concerns might increase. Although it is seen that the educated father's child is more likely to acquire sportsman identity, but the effects of the family on sportsman children are still a subject of research. Negative emotions seen in badminton branch are important in terms of showing emotional differences between team and individual sport branches, but anxiety levels of team and individual branches show different results in literature.
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