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This study focuses on the study of the vision disabled athletes, who participated in the Vision Disabled Swimming Championship in Turkey, the level of motivation for success specific to the sport in terms of various variables. In determining the participants’ sports-specific success motivations, the researchers developed the “Personal Information Form” and the “Sports-specific Success Motivation” scale was developed by Wills and adapted to the Turkish in 1997 by Tiryaki and Gödelek. The universe of the research is made up of 94 (35 women, 59 men) vision disabled athletes who participated in the Turkish Vision Disabled Swimming Championship held in Alanya in 2017 by the Turkish Vision Disabled Federation. The sample group consisted of a total of 74 (27 women, 47 men) athletes who participated in our work.  The data of the study was analyzed in the SPSS 22.0 statistical program. According to the normality test; the scale of success motivation in sport has shown the total score, the sub-dimensional score, the sub-dimensional score, the normal distribution (p>0,005), and the sub-dimensional score of failure, the total score, the normal distribution (p<0,005). Therefore, the normal distribution data were tested by Mann Whitney U and Kruskal Wallis to the data that did not show normal distribution. The findings found that the participants did not differentiate significantly in terms of the levels of motivation, gender, educational status, perceived income, age and time of formation of disabilities, however, the level of motivation for success and the age groups had a significant difference in each other. According to the difference achieved, 11-15-year-old participants were found to have a higher approach to success than 16-20-year-old participants, and 16-20-year-old participants were found to have a higher approach to success than 21-25 and 25 years-old participants. As a result, from the point of view of the participants, there is no significant difference between the levels of motivation for sport-specific success and the research variables, while it can be said that participants aged 16-20 have a high approach to success.

Abstract:

This research is focused on examining the levels of motivation for success of visually impaired athletes participating in Turkish Visually Impaired Swimming Championship in terms of various variables. The "Personal Information Form" developed by researchers and "Sports Specific Motivation for Success" scale developed by Wills and adapted into Turkish by Tiryaki and Gödelek in 1997 were used to determine participants' sports specific motivation for success. Participants' sport specific motivation levels for success were compared in terms of age, gender, education and perceived economic status, sports year, and time of disability. The target group of the research consisted of a total of visually impaired 94 athletes, (35 women and 59 men) participating in the "Turkish Visually Impaired Swimming Championship" organized by the Visually Impaired Federation in Turkey in 2017, in the province of Alanya. The sample group consisted of 74 participants in total, (27 women and 47 men) participating voluntarily. Data obtained from the study were analyzed with SPSS 22.0 statistical packaged software. Findings were obtained by applying Anova to data with normal distribution, and applying Mann Whitney U and Kruskal Wallis tests to data without normal distribution (p<0.005) According to the findings obtained, it was determined that participants' sports specific motivation levels for success did not differ significantly in terms of gender, educational status, perceived income, age and time of disability. On the other hand, there was a significant difference between the level of motivation for closeness to success and age groups. According to the difference obtained, participants in the age range of 11-15 years were found to have a higher motivation for closeness to the success than participants in the age range of 16-20 group and participants in the age range of 16-20 years were found to have a higher motivation for closeness to the success than participants in the age range of 11-15, 21-25 and over 25.  As a conclusion, it can be said that there was not a significant difference between the sports specific motivation levels for success and the research variables in terms of the participants of the research, while the participants of 16-20 age group had a higher motivation for closeness to the success

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