Özet:

The Covid-19 pandemic, which affected the whole world in the same time period, also deeply affected the perception and behavior patterns of sports participants. People have been subjected to great anxiety and fear with the epidemic. This situation has caused people to become alienated from each other and their surroundings. In this study, it was aimed to investigate the relationship between fear of Covid-19 and alienation in sports. The universe of the research consists of hockey athletes participating in the U15 Women-Men Democracy and National Union Turkey Hockey Championship, which is in the annual activity program of the Turkish Hockey. The sample group consists of a total of 165 hockey athletes, including 68 women and 97 men, who have agreed to participate in the study entirely on a voluntary basis from among these athletes. Descriptive statistics were conducted to determine the level of fear of Covid-19 and alienation of hockey athletes in sports. The homogeneity of the data was checked, the Independent Samples t test was used for binary comparisons, One-Way Anova was used for multiple comparisons, and the Tukey tests were used to determine the source of the difference. In the context of the relational model, the correlation method was applied We express the findings reached as a result of the research.; It was found that there were no significant differences between the fear of Covid-19 and alienation in sports according to age and sports experience variables, there were significant changes in the level of fear of Covid-19 in the gender variable of hockey players and athletes had an average score near the intermediate level on both scales. As a result, it has been determined that there is no correlation dec fear of Covid-19 and alienation in sports in this research.

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