Abstract:

Through this study, sportsmanship orientation of hearing impaired volleyball players  were tried to be examined in terms of some variants. While the set of research consisted of four-team Turkish 2017-2018 season Hearing Impaired Volleyball 1st League, the sample group was of forty male sportsmen aged between 26,75 ± 7,59 who played in this league. For data collection, a demographic form including personal information and the Multidimensional Sportsmanship Orientation Scale (MSOS) which was developed by Vallerand and his friends (1997) and transcripted into Turkish by Sezen-BALÇIKANLI (2010) were used. For normality test (Shapiro Wilk Test) seeing that data wasn’t proving a normal distribution for all dimensions, Mann Whitney-U and Kruskal Wallis tests are used instead which are non-parametric analysis methods. As a result, while there weren’t significant changes among hearing impaired volleyball players’ sportsmanship attitudes in terms of sportsmanship experiences, education levels, parental education levels and age groups (p>0,05), in multi-dimensional sportsmanship orientation scale it can be said that contribution to values of sportsmanship orientation for all sub-dimensions just as compliance with social norms, respect to rules and management, commitment to social responsibilities and respect for opponent is more among athletes over 26 years old regarding those between 17-25 years old;  among those who has 4 years or more experience in sportmanship regarding those who has less experience and it is more again among those who are primary school graduates regarding high school and university graduates.