INVESTIGATION OF COMPETITION ANXIETY LEVELS OF ATHLETES’ BY WINTER SPORTS

Turkey is a mid-rail country, it has nationally and internationally important winter tourism centers due to its special location and privileges. With these centers, sports enthusiasts interested in winter sports offer sports facilities in various areas. The purpose of this study is to examine the competition concerns of national and club athletes operating in the winter sports field in our country. the effects of variables such as age, gender, sporting level, and duration of sporting athletes' anxiety levels will be examined. Working in this direction; the level of competition anxiety, which is important for the success of winter sports athletes, will reveal the relationship of the athletes to the specified variables. In this context, it is important to provide suggestions in order to reduce anxiety levels. Research group of the study was composed of Turkey Ski Federation, Turkey Ice Skating Federation and Turkey Curling Federation. In this study, data obtained from 161 athletes were used by questionnaire method. In current study, the Competition Anxiety Test (SCAT-A) developed by Rainer Martens was used as measures. Accordingly, we have analyzed factors based on the t-test and ANOVA test. As a result; between anxiety levels it was determined by gender and age is a significant difference. It was determined that there is no significant difference between the sporting branches, sports year, competition levels and education levels