Abstract:

This study aims to study the motivations of individuals who play recreational sports during the Covid-19 pandemic process and which sports they are targeting during this process. For this purpose, Pelletier and ark., developed by (1991) and used as a data collection tool, adapted to the "Servest Time Motivation Scale" by the first time Happy (2008) and subsequently Güngörmüş (2012) by validity reliability work. The study included 291 athletes (138 women, 153 men) selected by random sampling method. The analysis of the data used the Independent Samples t test and the One-way (One Way) Anova test. The Post Hoc LSD test was conducted to identify the differences between the groups. According to the research findings, there was no statistically meaningful difference in terms of age, gender, athletic license and the sport industry. A statistically meaningful result was found in the variation of educational status in the low dimension of motivation. After all, it is concluded that graduates have a low level of motivation in their leisure activities. It has also come to the conclusion that more nature is focused on sports activities and individual sports.

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