INVESTIGATION OF THE EFFECT OF HIGH SCHOOL AND UNIVERSITY STUDENTS’ IDENTIFICATION WITH THE TEAM THEY ARE SUPPORTING ON RESPECT FOR OPPOSITE OPINION IN SPORTS

Abstract

The aim of this study is to examine high school and university students’ level of identification with the team and respect for opposite opinionsin terms of different variables. There search groups consist of 388 students studying at high school and university in the 2020-2021 academic year. In the study, the Personal Information Form developed by there searchers, and the “Sport Spectator Identification Scale” developed by Wann and Branscombe (1993), whose adapted to Turkish and validity and reliability study was made by Günay and Tiryaki (2003), “Respect for Opposite Opinions and Self-Control Scale in Sports” developed by Gülle (2018) has been used. In the normality test of the obtained data, it was determined that the“Sports Spectator Identification Scale”showed normal distribution and the t-Test was applied. However, it was determined that the “Respect for Opposite Opinions and Self-Control Scale in Sports” and the sub-dimension of respect towards opponent and hatred towards opponent did not show a normal distribution and were evaluated with the MannWhitney U Test, which is one of the nonparametric tests. In this study, the significance level (p) was accepted as <0.05. As a result; in the respect towards opponent sub-dimension of the “Respect for Opposing Opinions in Sports and Self-Control Scale”, a significant difference was found between the variables of gender and active sports status, but no significant difference was found in terms of thevariable of education level. No significant difference was found between the variables of gender and education level in the hatred towards opponent sub-dimension of the “Respect for Opposite Opinions and Self-Control Scale in Sports”. As a result of the t test, a significant difference was found between the “Sports Spectator Identification Scale”and the variables of gender and regular exercise, while no significant difference was found between the “Sports Spectator Identification Scale” and the education level variable. © 2021, Ataturk Universitesi. All rights reserved.