DOI: 10.36347/sjahss.2017.v05i10.019

Pages: 1441-1447

This study aims to analyze individual sports athletes’ self-effectiveness and levels of competence according to some variables such as age, educational status, sports age and branch. The study is conducted in Ankara and İzmir provinces. 80 box, 75 wrestling, 45 weight lifting athletes participated in the study, 200 athletes in total. As data collection tools, “Personal Information Form” and “Self-Efficacy Scale” adapted into Turkish by Gözüm and Aksayan in 1999, which had been developed by Sherer and his friends in 1982. Data set has been analyzed with SPSS 20.0 packaged program and in the statistical analysis; t test for paired comparison, and for multiple comparisons Anova (One-way Variance Analysis) have been used.