Abstract:

The object of this study is to evaluate the relationship between the general self-efficacy levels of the students, who study in the faculty of sports sciences and at the school of physical education and sports and who do sports actively, and athlete identity perception. Accordingly, the population consists of students of the School of Physical Education and Sports and Faculty of Sports Sciences of the foundation universities in Istanbul, whereas the sample of the study consists of volunteer participants (n=333) selected by a simple random sampling, who study in the departments of sport management, coaching training and recreation, and have at least three years of sports background. The volunteers were asked to apply a socio-demographic information form, a general self-efficacy scale for measuring their general self-efficacy, which was developed by Schwarzer and Jarusselam (1995) and subjected to validity and reliability study by Aypay (2010), and an athlete identity perception scale which was developed by Brewer and Cornelius (2001) and adapted to Turkish by Ozturk and Koca (2013). The obtained data was recorded via IBM Spss 22 package program. Correlation and Regression analysis were applied as the statistical process. Consequently, it was determined that the students' general self-efficacy and athlete identity perceptions were at a good level, that there was a positive correlation between the general self-efficacy level and the athlete identity perception, and that the general self-efficacy level predicted (affected) the athletic identity perception.

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