Evaluation of Moral Decision Making Attitudes of Football Infrastructure Athletes Between Ages of 11-18

Abstract

The aim of this study is to examine and interpret the moral decision-making attitudes of athletes participating in the football branch studies in Konya Province in the 2017-2018 season within the scope of the infrastructure activities of the Atiker Konyaspor Club. The research group consisted of 234 athletes participating in the study voluntarily from the 274 athletes who participated in the infrastructure studies mentioned in 2017-2018 season .In this study which was conducted based on survey model, Moral Decision Making Attitudes Scale was used in the substructure sports developed by Lee et al (2007) and whose Turkish validity and reliability performed by Gürpınar (2014). SPSS 16.0 statistical package program was used to evaluate the data and to find the calculated values. Data were summarized with percentage, mean and standard deviations. The data were tested by Kolmogorov-Smirnov test if it showed normal distribution and it was determined that the data did not show normal distribution. Since the data is not normal distribution ,The independent group Mann Whitney U test for binary cluster comparisons, Kruskal Wallis-H test for more than two cluster comparisons was used. The Dunnett T3 test was used to determine the source of significant differences from the Kruskal Wallis-H test result.Within the scope of the study,Scale reliability coefficient was calculated as 0.76. The level of significance of the study was taken as 0.05.As a result of the research; As a result of the averages of the Moral Decision Making Attitudes Scale of 234 athletes participating in the mentioned infrastructure activities, While statistically significant differences were determined according to education level, father education level and age variable, No difference was determined according to mother education level variable.