Abstract:

This study is a screening model study, which aims to examine the social appearance anxiety of senior taekwondo athletes studying at university in terms of various variables. The research has been conducted on the athletes who had participated in the Taekwondo Championship of Turkey which was organized by the Turkish University Sports Federation in 2017 at the Ahi Evran University, School of Physical Education and Sports. 399 athletes who had participated in the championship are constituting the research’s universe, and 228 voluntary athletes in total –as being 93 females and 135 males- are constituting the research’s sample. “Social Appearance Anxiety Scale (SAAS)”, which was developed by Hart et al. (2008) and whose validity and reliability study was made after being adapted to Turkish by Doğan (2010), have been used as the data collection tool of the research. In the analysis of data, descriptive statistical methods frequency (n), percentage (%) have been used for the personal information. In the assessment of scales, t-test –among the parametrical tests- has been applied in groups of two, and Anova test has been applied in the multiple groups, and .05 significance level has been selected for statistical significance. As a result of the research, it has been determined that the social appearance anxieties of senior taekwondo athletes studying at university differ as per the variables of gender and of being a national team athlete, and don’t differ as per the variables of years spent in sports and weight class.

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