| Issue |
SHS Web Conf.
Volume 37, 2017
ERPA International Congresses on Education 2017 (ERPA 2017)
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| Article Number | 01041 | |
| Number of page(s) | 12 | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/shsconf/20173701041 | |
| Published online | 14 August 2017 | |
Examination of group cohesiveness levels and goal orientations of basketball players
1 Faculty of Sport Science, Gazi University/YüzüncüYıl University, 06000 Ankara, Turkey
2 Faculty of Sport Science, Gazi University, 06000 Ankara, Turkey
a Corresponding author: cancavitotkan@gazi.edu.tr
This research intends to examine goal orientation and group cohesiveness levels of basketball players. 243 mature players who play in the leagues of Turkish Basketball Federation in 2016- 2017 season participated the study. “Task and Ego Orientation in Sports” and “Group Cohesiveness” questionnaires are used in study. While frequency, arithmetic mean and standard deviation is used for the analysis of data, T-Test, One-Way Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) and Post-Hoc test statistics (Tukey HSD) are used for independent samples. Depending on the variables of gender and educational background of players, a significant difference is identified in sub-dimension of Task Attraction of Group and a low-level negatively significant difference is identified between Ego Orientation in terms of age and sportive age. Significant differences are identified between the Perception of Team Success and sub-dimensions of Social Integration of Group and Social Attraction of Group. No statistically significant difference can be found for the variable of time spent in team in terms of group cohesiveness and goal orientation.
Key words: Group cohesiveness / goal orientations / motivation / basketball
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