An Investigation of Relationship Between Alexithymia and Ego-Oriented Levels of Students at The Faculty of Sports Sciences
Emre Belli, Davut Budak
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ABSTRACT
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.