COMPARISON OF SOCIAL RELATIONSHIP LEVELS OF SEDENTARY AND ATHLETES
SOSYAL İLİŞKİ DÜZEYLERİ AÇISINDAN SPORCU VE SEDANTERLERİN KARŞILAŞTIRILMASI

Author : Ulvi GÜZEL -- Egemen EEMİŞ - Necati Alp ERİLLİ - Aydan ERMİŞ
Number of pages : 461-472

Abstract

Sports, especially team sports, are considered effective on social relations. The purpose of this study is to find out social relations levels in sedentary and athletes. 305 individuals between 15 and 25-157 athletes (80 men, 77 women) and 148 sedentary (75 men, 73 women)- in Rize, Ordu and Samsun participated in the study. “Social Relations Scale” and “Multidimensional Perceived Social Support Scale” were used as data collection tool. SPSS 22.00 program was used for data analysis. Differences were found in terms of gender only in multidimensional scale friends dimension. In terms of doing sport, difference was found only in social scale family dimension. Differences were found in doing sport in terms of age.Analyses showed that sedentary and athletes did not differ according to a great number of variables in terms of social relations. It can be said that individuals’ family lives in our country and cultural habits are similar.

Keywords

Sedentary, Athlete, Social Relations

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