Spor Bilimleri Fakültesi Öğrencilerinin Taraftarı Oldukları Futbol Takımına Karşı Psikolojik Bağlılıklarının İncelenmesi

Abstract

Although the fans are one of the main sources that keep the clubs alive, it is extremely wrong to ignore this audience and not to conduct research based on scientific methods about them. It will be important for the clubs to understand this community that is attached blindly and does not stop supporting their team. In this study, the aim was to understand the psychological commitment of the Faculty of Sport Sciences students to the team they support and examine this commitment in terms of different variables. The study group of this research consisted of 446 students, 162 of whom were females and 284 were males, who continue their education at Mugla Sitki Kocman University the Faculty of Sport Sciences. As data collection tools; the Psychological Commitment to Team (PCT) Scale developed by Mahony et al. (2000) and adapted to Turkish by Eskiler et al. (2011) and the Personal Information Form prepared by the researchers to determine the demographic characteristics of the students were used. In the analysis of the obtained data; to determine the socio-demographic characteristics of the participants, frequency and percentage analysis, and to evaluate the psychological commitment of students to their teams according to different variables t-test and one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) were applied. After one-way analysis of variance(ANOVA), Tukey HSD multiple comparison test was applied to determine from which groups the statistical difference occurred. In statistical analysis and interpretation of the data, p<0.05 significance level was taken into consideration. Taking gender into account, the results of the research showed that male students had higher TPB scores than female ones. In addition, according to the team variable, it was determined that the TPB scores of the students who were fans of Fenerbahce were significantly higher than the other team fans. According to another result, it was found that the TPB scores of the participants who said that I didn’t buy official products were significantly lower than other fans.