The effect of the football (PES) game played with educational digital game on the sports success motivation of football players

In this study, it was aimed to examine the effect of the football (PES) game played with an educational digital game on the sports success motivation of the athletes playing in the Yıldırımspor amateur sports club in Bitlis.The sample size that can represent the study population of the research consists of 22 football players determined by purposeful sampling, taking into account the error amount of 0.05 within the % 95 confidence interval. The average age of the research group was 26.16±5.71 years, respectively; It was determined that he was 171.9±2.46 cm tall.In the research, the pre-test post-test single-group relational screening model, one of the quantitative research methods, was used."Personal Information Form", "Training program" and "Sport-Specific Achievement Motivation Scale" prepared by the researcher were used as data collection tools.Firstly, the scale was applied to the research group for pre-test, and then the PES game training program, which is an educational digital game, was applied 3 days a week, 60 minutes a day for 8 weeks.In a training unit, 10-15 minutes of warm-up, 30-40 minutes of training to improve technical-tactical or conditioning properties were performed, and 10-15 minutes of cool-down exercises were performed at the end of the training.In the analysis of the data collected in accordance with the purpose of the research, descriptive statistics such as frequency, percentage distribution, arithmetic mean, standard deviation were applied through the SPSS-22 package program.Then, "T-Test for Independent Samples" was used for comparisons with two groups.When the number of groups was more than two, "One-Way Analysis of Variance (ANOVA)" was used.In order to determine the source of the difference, "Tukey HSD" multiple comparison test was applied."Pearson Correlation" was used to determine the relationship between the Football (PES) Game Played with an Educational Digital Game and the Sports Success Motivation of Football Players. "Pearson Correlation Analysis" was used to determine the effect of the Football (PES) Game Played with an Educational Digital Game on the Sports Success Motivation of Football Players and to determine the level of relationship. .Paired Sample T-test was used for pre-test and post-test comparisons in the research.Significance was accepted as p<0.05.According to the results obtained, no significant difference was detected according to the analysis results of the football (PES) game played with an educational digital game, with the sportive success motivation scale and sub-dimensions of the football players, and the variables of marital status, sports year, educational digital game playing status and giving up status;A significant difference was detected in the education level variable in favor of university graduate athletes.In addition, a significant difference was detected as a result of the statistical analysis made for the pre-test and post-test comparison of the football players' sports success motivation scale and its sub-dimensions of the football (PES) game played with the educational digital game.Post-test mean scores were found to be higher than pre-test mean scores.In conclusion;A significant relationship has been determined between the football (PES) game played with the educational digital game and the sports success motivation scale of football players.A positive, moderately significant relationship was detected between the post-test Sportive Achievement Motivation scale and its sub-dimensions and the educational digital game played with the football (PES) game. Keywords: Digital game, Educational digital game, Football, PES game, Sports success motivation.