Abstract:

248 students studying at Aydın Adnan Menderes University, Faculty of Sports Sciences in the 2021-2022 academic year participated voluntarily in this research, which was carried out to determine the psychological needs of the students of the Faculty of Sports Sciences in sports. In the current study, the Psychological Needs in Sports status scale (SPIDS), which was developed by Bhavsar et al. (2020) and adapted into Turkish by Bülbül and Akyol (2020), was used. The analysis of the data obtained within the scope of the research was made in the SPSS 25.00 package program. It was determined that the data obtained from the students studying at Aydın Adnan Menderes University Faculty of Sports Sciences did not show a normal distribution. In this context, non-parametric tests were used in the present study. As a result of this research, which was carried out with the aim of examining the psychological needs of the students of the faculty of sports sciences in terms of some variables; According to the grade level variable, it is seen that the mean scores of the students' independent satisfaction sub-dimension differ, while there is no statistically significant difference in other variables. As a result, it was determined that the psychological needs of the participants were moderate in all sub-dimensions.