Özet:

The aim of this study is to study the characteristics of self-confidence of sports hockey athletes. The examples of the study, where the ice hockey halls are located in the provinces of Erzurum, Ankara, İzmir and Istanbul, were formed by 120 women, 315 men, and a total of 435 athletes who were actively interested in ice hockey sports in the age range of 16-30 years. As a data collection tool in the study, participants have been tailored to the personal information form and Vealey (1986) developed, the validity and reliability study of the Turkish form in our country was carried out by Yıldırım (2013) and the scale of Continuous Self-Confidence (SSKG) in Sport, which is made up of a single sub-dimension (Continuous Trust). The study used the technique of independent samples t-test (t-test) for independent groups, and the data were analyzed before the assumption of the homogenity of inter-group variations was studied with the Levene Test. The ANOVA (Analysis of Variance) technique was used in comparisons for situations where the assumption was not met, and the Kruskal-Wallis-H test, the non-parametric alternative to ANOVA, was used in comparisons for situations where the assumption was not met. The scores obtained from the scale of constant self-confidence in the sport according to the gender variable; for male athletes, according to the age variable; for athletes aged 26 years and over, according to the educational status variable: for athletes who have graduated from high school, according to the time variable they are interested in ice hockey; for athletes who are interested in ice hockey for 6 years and over, according to the state variable, whether they are national athletes; for national athletes, according to the age variable; according to the age variable; according to the age variable; according to the age variable; according to the age variable; according to the age variable; according to the age variable; according to the age variable. According to the city variable; the athletes living in the province of Istanbul have received the highest arithmetic average but not meaningful (p>0,001). The research has found that taking into account various demographic variables, the achievements of the individual in the social structure have been effective in determining the characteristics of self-confidence in the sport.