Abstract

This research was conducted for the purpose of establishing the relationship of individuals doing sports in various branches in the Province Agri with their coaches in terms of the branch they are engaged in and some demographical variables. In the research, a method oriented to the descriptive survey which aims to present the present situation was used. The research group is consisted of totally 95 athletes; 28 of whom are females and 67 are males who do sports in various branches in Agri. The Scale of Coach-Athlete Relationship (S-CAR) which was developed by Jowett and Ntoumanis (2004), measures the quality of coach-athlete relationship and was adapted into Turkish by Ekenci et al., (2017) was used as data collection tool. Mann-Whitney U Test was used for the paired comparison and Kruskal-Wallis Variance Analysis was used for multiple comparisons in the analysis of data. In cases where there is significant difference at the end of Kruskal Wallis Variance Analysis in the multiple comparisons, Mann Whitney U Test was applied for determining that which groups caused to this difference. p=0.05 was selected for the significance level in the research. At the end of the research, it was found out that the age variable does not vary significantly in the coach-athlete relationship. Again there are no significant differences by the license years and branch variable. However, it was found that there are significant variables when gender and educational background of the participants were examined.

Highlights

  • A ruling and ruled persons have been always present in the lives since the individuals have started to live as a society

  • Mann-Whitney U Test was used for the paired comparison and Kruskal-Wallis Variance Analysis was used for multiple comparisons in the analysis of data

  • It was aimed to determine the relationships of athletes who compete in different clubs located in the Province Ağrı with their coaches in terms of different variables and the following results were obtained: When the research findings were examined, it was determined that female participants use the mutual communication dimension, of the sub-dimension of the coach-athlete relationship scale, in a more evident way than the male participants, in the gender variable

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Introduction

A ruling and ruled persons have been always present in the lives since the individuals have started to live as a society. It is seen that there are cases such as differences of opinions, cooperation difficulties of individuals and division of labor and specialization aiming differentiation between those who are ruled and do rule and in the path going to that aim. Such these cases caused the concepts such as administrators and coaches to emerge in the society [1]. Every person acquire some positive or negative impressions starting from certain characteristics from appearances to the behaviors about the persons with whom they are in communication, and develop some expectations starting from here. This situation is a process developed beyond the control of the person to some extent and usually without realizing it [2]

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