Aim: The aim of this study is to investigate of students sport science faculty relationship between on their alexithymia status and ego-oriented goals levels to compare them according to different demographic variables.

Methods: For data collection, “Alexithymia Scale” was used which was developed by Bagby et al. ⁵ and was adapted to turkish by Güleç et al. ⁶ For data collection, “Task and Ego Oriented Scale” was used which was developed by Duda. ⁷ and was adapted to turkish by Toros and Yetim ⁸ to 416 participants in total consisting of 138 female and 278 male students.

For data analysis, through SPSS statistical packet program, frequency analysis, desciptive statistics, independent sample t-tests, one-way anova, tukey, pearson correlation analyze were performed.

Results: A highly significant negative correlation was found between the participants' ego orientation averages and their alexithymia averages. (r= -.826, p<0.01).

Conclusion: According to this; As the participants' alexithymia levels increased, their ego orientation decreased; in other words, it was concluded that as ego orientations increased, alexithymia levels decreased.

Keywords: Alexithymia, Ego-oriented, Physical Educaiton, Sport.