Investigation of the effects of family, environment and society elements in women's volleyball first league

Within the scope of this research, it is aimed to investigate the effects of family, environment and social factors on professional volleyball players' orientation to the volleyball branch. Within the scope of the research, it was investigated whether the individuals' expectations from sports, encouragement to start sports, continue sports professionally, and their expectations from sports differ significantly in terms of age, the presence of athletes in their family, the number of siblings and the age of starting sports. The research group consists of professional athletes aged between 15 and 38 who play in the women's volleyball 1st league. Appropriate sampling method was used while selecting the individuals to participate in the study. The research was carried out with relational scanning model, one of the general scanning models. In the study, the data were analyzed using IBM SPSS 22 package program. The margin of error in the interpretation of the data was accepted as .05. While analyzing the data, firstly, outlier analysis was performed according to each sub-problem. It has been observed that there is no data showing any extreme value. Then, normality studies were started with 102 data. While analyzing normality, firstly, the skewness and kurtosis values of each subgroup were examined and it was seen that the values were not between +1.5 and –1.5. In this direction, Man Whitney U and Kruskal Wals H analyzes were performed as a statistical procedure. As a result of the research, a statistically significant difference was found in the sub-dimension of volleyball players' expectation from sports according to the variables of age, number of siblings and age of starting sports. While a significant difference was found in the sub-dimension of volleyball players' incentive to sports, according to the variable of the number of siblings. According to the age of starting the sport of volleyball players, a difference was found in terms of engagement and expectation from sports.