Abstract:

The aim of this study is to determine the levels of life satisfaction of physical disabled athletes and physical disabled sedanter individuals in terms of various variables. In the study, 30 years old and older ampute football, wheelchair basketball, armband race, shooting, swimming, wheelchair tennis, badminton, athletics, table tennis, Halter branches participated in 78 physical disabled athletes with 105 sedanter physical disabled individuals. The life-satisfaction scale, which was developed in 1985 by Diener and his friends in order to measure the levels of life-satisfaction, was used by Köker for the adaptation work of five substances. For questions aimed at measuring life satisfaction, the Seven Likert type scale was used, which varied between "(1) I never agree with the given expression" and "(7) I fully agree with the given expression". To determine the difference between the two groups, independent samples were used to test t. When the findings were studied, it was found that there were significant differences between physical disabilities and sedant physical disabilities in the living satisfaction levels (p<0.05). For those who don’t do sports, the life of Nazaran is more satisfied. There was no significant difference in life satisfaction between married and single (p>0.05). According to the results of the Mann-Whitney U test, there was a significant difference between men and women in terms of life satisfaction variables (p<0.05). Women have a high quality of life for men. According to the results of the variance analysis, there was a very significant difference between income levels in terms of life-satisfaction variables (p<0.001). As the level of income increases, the satisfaction of life increases. As a result, the participation of physical disabled individuals in sports activities has been shown to increase their lifetime satisfaction levels.

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