The Effect of Rumors in Sports on the Organizational Commitment of Amateur Football Players

Abstract

The aim of this research is to determine the effect of rumor in sports on the organizational commitment of amateur football players. The sample group of the research, in which the relational screening model is used, consists of 357 amateur male football players selected by convenience sampling method. The data is collected with the Personal Information Form, whose data are developed by the researcher, and the "Rumor Impact Scale in Sports" developed by Üzüm et al. (2020), “Organizational Commitment Scale” developed by Meyer and Allen (1997), its Turkish version is developed by Dağlı et al. (2018). In the analysis of the collected data; While a low level positive relationship is found between motivation scores and organizational commitment scores, no significant relationship is found between other sub-dimensions of rumor in sports and organizational commitment score averages. As a result of simple linear regression analysis, it is seen that the regression model is statistically significant. When the t-test results regarding the significance of the regression coefficients are examined, it is found that motivation scores have a significant predictive power on emotional commitment.