Özet:

The aim of this study is to adapt the Community Sensation Scale (STH) in Sport developed by Warner, Kerwin, and Walker (2013) to the Turkish language. The study included 124 girls, 98 men, and a total of 222 active athletes (15 ± 1.91 years). The STH is developed to measure the community sense in the sports environment. The scale consists of 21 articles and 6 sub-dimensions: Administrative Assessment, Joint Interest, Equality in Administrative Decisions, Leadership Opportunities, Social Areas, Competition. In the analysis of data, illustrative analyses, Cronbach's alpha internal consistency ratio, pearson correlation analysis and verifying factor analysis were used. The correlations of Turkish English forms are seen between 0.76 and 0.93; the internal consistency values are seen between 0.67 and 0.84. According to the verifying factor analysis, the factor load values were between 0.59 and 0.81. The STHÖ’s values associated with model data compatibility (χ2/sd=1.95, RMSEA= 0.066, CFI= 0.97, NFI=0.94, NNFI=0.96, GFI=0.87) are acceptable and perfectly compatible. When all the achieved results are taken into account, it is shown that the model is in line with the data and the scale has a structural validity. As a result, it can be said that the Turkish version of "Sports Community Sensation Scale" can be used in research as a valid and reliable measurement tool.