Abstract:

The purpose of the research: The purpose of this research is to investigate the levels of sports-specific success and motivation of university students who do sports, to evaluate the results based on their socio-demographic characteristics. The examples of the study consist of 94 men and 50 women who studied and participated in competitions at Namık Kemal University in the 2016-2017 educational year, a total of 144 athletes. The personal information form for determining demographic characteristics was developed by Willis in 1982 by Tiryaki and Gödelek (1997) and adapted to Turkey, the reliability and validity study was carried out with the Sports-specific Success Motivation Scale (SÖBMÖ) scale. The data obtained was analyzed using the SPSS 22 Statistical Package Program. If there is a meaningful difference, the results of the variance analysis are compared using the Tukey test. The study found that the levels of success and motivation of students who do constantly sports are specific to the sport; gender, age, education, income level, where they live, time to do sport, licensed sporting, frequency to do sport, interest in different branches are not statistically significant differences.