Abstract:

The purpose of this research; It is an examination of the relationship between the adult attachment patterns and assertiveness levels of active athletes in the dart branch. A total of 94 Darts athletes participated in the survey, 39 female and 55 male, determined by random sampling method, which competes in the 6th Darts of the Turkish Darts Championship in the year 2016 and which is neither in the national or international championships nor graded. Rathus Assertiveness Scale (RAE), developed by Rathus (1973) and adapted by the Turkish version Voltan (1980), and the first part by Hazan, Shaver (1987) The second part was the "Adult Attachment Scale (AAS)" developed by Mikulincer et al. (1990) and adapted to Turkish by Kesebir, Kökçü and Dereboy (2012). In the analysis of the data; t-Test and ANOVA were used to examine the differences between the mean scores of the attachment styles and the assertiveness levels according to the demographic characteristics of the participants; Pearson Correlation test was used to examine relations between variables. In the findings of the research; There was no significant difference between the mean scores of the scale dimensions according to the variables of "gender" and "attaining degrees in international and national championships" in the t-test results (p> 0.05). There was a significant difference in the mean scores of the RAE, the safe attachment subscale of the SDS and the mean of the anxious / unstable attachment subscale scores of the SDS according to the level of "education level", while the ANOVA test results showed no significant difference compared to the "parental level of education" ˂0.05). In addition, according to the variable of "maternal education level", significant differences were found in the total mean scores of the safe attachment subscale of EBMT, avoidant attachment subscale of EBMM and EBMM (p˂0.05). According to the correlation test, there was a significant low level of positive correlation between the "age" variable and the average scores of the RAE and the average of the anxious / unstable attachment subscale scores of the SDS, while there was a meaningful correlation between the variables of "sport year" and "monthly income" It could be. In addition, significant correlations were found between the mean scores of the RAE in all dimensions of SDS. As a result; It was observed that the average scores of the RAE increased as the total average scores of the EBBQ of active dumb players in the darts branch increased. It was also observed that as the ages of active athletes in the dart branch increased, the mean scores of the anxious / evasive subscale scores and the mean scores of RAE were also increased.

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