Abstract:

In this study, narcissistic personality traits university students who do sports and do not do sports are examined in terms of different variables such as age, gender, department, graduated high school, mother education level, father education level, maternal occupation and father occupational variables. The research group consisted of 364 university students studying in Gazi University, Hacettepe University and Ankara University in the 2017-2018 academic year. The standardization of the Turkish version was conducted by Salim Atay (2009) and the Narcissistic Personality Inventory developed by Raskin and Hall (1988) was used. Descriptive statistics on narcissistic personality scores; Variance Analysis was used to compare mean scores in unrelated measurements and Tukey test was used to determine which groups were significantly different. According to the results of the research, the authority, supremacy, exhibitionism, exploitation and claiming behaviors of university students who are active in sports are more than the students who do not do sports; It is observed that self-efficacy behavior of the students who do not do sports is more than the students who are actively engaged in sports. As a result, it is seen that university students who do sports do tend to have more narcissistic personality than the students who do not do.

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