Investigating Success Motivation Levels of Sporters in Football Branch with regards to Certain Variables

Purpose of this study is to examine success motivation levels of sporters of football which is a team sports according to various variables. 142 sporters, whose 97 are professional and 45 of them are amateurs and who are competing in different leagues in 2013-2014 football season; constitute our study group. Data of the study was collected by means of “Personal Information Form” that is prepared by the researcher and by utilizing “Success Motivation Specific to Sports” scale, of which its validity and reliability were tested by Tiryaki and Gödelek (1997). SPSS 17 Package Program was used for statistical evaluations. Independent groups t test and One Way Anova test were used for the analysis of data. Also Pearson Correlation Test was applied to determine the relations between the variables. According to the results obtained, it is determined that there were significant differences between the sub-dimensions of showing power and status of sporters whether or not they have played in the national team; and ages of the sporters and their approach towards success and avoiding failures (p<0.05). Also important differences were detected among the subdimensions of avoiding failures, approach towards success and showing strength in terms of their period of playing football; and in sub-dimensions of approaching to success and avoiding failures in terms of their monthly income status (p<0,05).