An examination of loneliness levels of athletes with different variables involved in individual sports and team sports

The aim of this study was engaged in individual and team sports athletes according to the investigation of various variable is the level of loneliness. Research, 2016 – 2017 season as active in volleyball, basketball, handball, badminton, table tennis and taekwando branch of study selected the appropriate sampling method and situated 600 athletes participated on a voluntary basis. Data gathering tool created by researchers with personal information as in 1978, Russel, Peplau, and Ferguson was developed by and validity and reliability in Turkey work Das (1989) by the UCLA Loneliness scale to other languages by making adapted. Determination of the distribution of personal information of the participants for the percent (%) and have the normal distribution of the data frequency methods; to determine whether Kolmogorov – Smirnov test for normality and the data is nonparametric test requirements for the determination of significant difference after understanding that Mann-Whitney U and Kruskall Wallis tests were applied. According to the results of the analysis of gender, age, level of prosperity and leisure time just out of participants not significant difference in levels of loneliness (p > 0.05), difficulty in attracting participants to evaluate free time sports branches and branches of the State, a team sport or an individual sport is based on whether it has been determined that no significant difference (p < 0.05). As a result, active sport in individuals leisure sports branches of the difficulty, engaging and destroying sports of team or individual sports industry affecting the level of variables, the loneliness is gender, age, level of prosperity and leisure time of the proficiency levels of active solitude in athletes is not affecting variables. Keywords: Loneliness, Sports, Individual Sports, Team Sports