Abstract:

The aim of this study is to examine the relationship between amateur and professional esports players’ commitment to sports and athlete sleep behaviors in terms of some variables.The sample group of the study was chosen by random sampling and consists of 31 female (20.3%) and 122 male (79.7%) athletes, aged 18 and over, in totals 153 athletes.In the study, “Sport Engagement Scale” was used to determine the sports commitment levels of athletes, “Athlete Sleep Behavior Scale” to determine sleep behaviors, and a personal information form developed by the researcher to determine the demographic information of the athletes were used as a data collection tool. The skewness and kurtosis values ​​of the data were examined and it was assumed that the data showed a normal distribution. Therefore, parametric tests were applied to the data. In the study, all statistical evaluations were made with the SPSS 21.0 program and the significance was taken as p<0.05. As a result of the research, statistical significance was determined between the scores of commitment to sports and the variables of gender, sport type, athlete license category and age. Statistically significant difference in athlete sleep behavior scores is seen according to athlete undergraduate category, education status and monthly income level variables. When the results of the correlation analysis between the scales were examined, a positive and moderately significant relationship was found between sports-relatedness factor scores and sub-dimension scores of commitment to sports. Consequently, it is thought that there will be negatives in their sleep patterns, as the levels of commitment to sports of esports players increases.

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