Investigating Organisation Commitment and Organisational Stress Behaviour in Disabled (Paralympic) Athletes

Abstract

The aim of this study is to investigate the organizational stress and organisational commitments levels of disabled (Paralympic) sports players, whether demographic properties affect organizational commitment and organizational stress, and the relationship between organizational commitment and organizational stress. In this study, surveys were given to Turkish sports players who participated in the 2016 Rio Paralympics Games, from which the study sample was constructed. Frequency, Mann Whitney U, Kruskal Wallis, and Pearson correlation tests were used to analysis the data. The results of the analysis indicated that organisational stress and organisational commitment of physically disabled (Paralympic) athlete players were at moderate levels, there was no significant difference in organisational commitments and organisational stress levels in terms of demographical properties, and there was no significant relationship between organisational stress and organisational commitment.

Analyzing Sports Participation Motivations of Students with Hearing Impairment—Istanbul City Example

“…A thorough literature review showed that there are limited studies on describing the reasons for starting sports for the individuals with hearing impairment. Studies mainly focus on sociologic, psychological, physiologic and physical gains of disabled individuals (Lewis & Fragala-Pinkham, 2005;Şirinkan, 2011;Taşkın, Karakoç, & Yüksek, 2015;Açak & Karademir, 2011;Işık, Kılıç, & Aksoy, 2017;Keskin et al, 2018).…”