Examination of The Attitudes of Cycling Athletes' Towards Ecorecreation
Veysel Albayrak, Atalay Gacar, Eyyup Nacar, Ömer Faruk Tutar
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ABSTRACT
Background: It is known that people's relations with nature can
be greatly influential in all periods of their lives and especially in their
future, which has increased their interest in concepts such as
"environment", "nature", "natural life",
"ecology", "ecosystem" as a result of the increase in
natural awareness in humans.
Aim: Based on these ideas, our
research aims to measure the attitudes of cycling athletes in Elazig province
towards ecorecreation..
Methods: A
total of 178 athletes from 242 cycling athletes, including cycling sports
clubs, associations, and individual athletes in Elazig province, participated
voluntarily. It consists of 31 substances and 6 sub-dimensions developed by
Ayyildiz and the 'Personal Information Form' prepared by the researchers as a
data collection tool. Attitude Scale Towards Ecorecreation(ASTE), which was
created in a 5-point Likert type format, was used. Spss 22.00 package program
was used for the analysis of the data and the level of significance was
determined as p<0.05. In the study, t-test analysis was applied to determine
the significance of the differences between two groups and ANOVA was applied to
determine the significance between more than two groups. Pearson correlation analysis
was used to determine the direction and severity of the relationship between
variables.
Results: As a result of the research, there was a semantic
difference in the individual and environmental sensitivities of licensed
cycling athletes. A significant difference was observed in the Attitudes and
Behavior towards Ecorecreation sub-dimensions of the athletes who are
interested in another nature sport.
Conclusion: The increase in positive behaviors towards nature
has clearly become clear that it is directly related to being in nature.
Accordingly, researchers believe and draw attention to the fact that in order
to increase the positive effect on nature, it is necessary to be intertwined
with nature and to adopt it.
Keywords: Cycling,
Outdoor Sport, Recreation, Ecorecreation