The aim of the study was to investigate the goal orientation and the motivational climate of university student-athletes and to reveal the relationship between the goal orientation and the motivational climate. The sample of the research consists of 212 student-athletes studying at universities. TEOSQ (Duda, 1989a;1992; Duda and Nicholls, 1992) and PMCSQ (Walling et al., 1993) were used as data collection tools. The results indicated that university student-athletes were task orientated and perceived the motivational climate as mastery climate. Besides, performance climate predicted ego orientation and mastery climate predicted task orientation. Moreover, age and career were negatively related to goal orientation and motivational climate. The results of the research contribute to a better understanding of the motivational process in physical education and sports environments by suggesting some implications both to the practitioners (teachers and coaches) who work in the field and to the researchers who are doing theoretical and empirical studies.
The aim of this study was to examine the relationship between the sport-confidence and the coach-athlete relationship in Turkish national male student-wrestlers, and to investigate whether educational status, wrestling style, wrestling category, and career of wrestlers were significant variables on student-wrestlers’ sport confidence and their relationship with their coaches. Participants were 198 Turkish national male wrestlers. Demographic questions, the Sport-Confidence Inventory (Vealey, 1986), and the Coach Athlete Relationship Questionnaire (Jowett & Ntoumanis, 2004) were performed for data collection. Results indicated that sport-confidence was significantly related to coach-athlete relationship and sport-confidence was significant predictor of wrestlers’ relationship with their coaches. Besides, wrestling style and wrestling category were significant variables on coach-athlete relationship. However, educational status and career of wrestlers were not significant variables in terms of sport-confidence and coach-athlete relationship. In conclusion, the findings of the study highlight that the association of sport-confidence and coach-athlete relationship can contribute to the understanding of relational process in sport.
Aim: The aim of this research is to examine the problem-solving skills and decision-making levels of karate referees. Method: The research group consists of 410 (161 female and 249 male) karate referees from different classifications who worked in the Turkish Karate Federation in the 2020-2021 season. As a data collection tool, the 35-item “Problem Solving Inventory” developed by Heppner and Petersen (1982) and adapted into Turkish by Taylan (1990) and the original Mann. et al. (1998) and adapted into Turkish by Deniz (2004) "Melbourne Decision Making Scale I-II" (MKVÖ) was used. Independent Sample T-Test, One-Factor Analysis of Variance and Pearson Correlation Test were applied to the obtained data after descriptive statistical operations were performed. Results and Conclusion: As a result of the research, while there was no significant difference in the decision-making levels of karate referees according to the refereeing year (p>0.05), there was a significant difference in the decision-making levels according to gender and refereeing classification (p<0.05). When we look at the problem-solving skills of karate referees, there were significant differences in problem-solving skills according to gender, refereeing year and refereeing classification (p<0.05).
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