Effect of psychological needings and boldness level of wrestlers on their individual success

It has been aimed in this study to analyze personal achievments, psychological needings and boldness level of elite wrestlers. Subjects has been chosen from wrestlers, have the right to take part in Turkey Wrestling Championship in 2006-2007 season, deal with the wrestling sport in various cities and clubs in Turkey. Subjects consist of wrestlers whose age range from 17 to 40 and participated in Turkey Wrestling championship, and these wrestlers include 89 male free-style wrestlers, 80 male greko-romen style wrestlers and 44 free-style female wrestlers. Firstly, information related to the aim of the survey has been given systematically by scanning literature. Thus, a theoretical framework about the topic has been established. Secondly, personal identification form created by the resarcher, psychological needings inventory, developed by Deci and Ryan (2000) adapted into Turkish by Kesici, Üre et al. (2002), and boldness inventory developed by Rathus (1973) adapted into Turkish by Voltan (1980), applied on the male and female wrestlers randomly in order to achieve the object of this study. One Way test was used while test t was used to analyze the data, besides Tukey test was used to determine the differences between the goups by a (P) 0.05 significance. SPSS (Statistical package for social sciences) programme has been used to evaluate data and find out values. Reliability coefficient was found as 1.73 for the autonomy ( Cronbach Alpha) as 0.60 for the sufficiency and as 1.78 for the boldness. As a result, It has been found that wrestlers, who have more liberal parents, having played in national team, having wrestled in 1 to 3 years, have a higher level of relationship needings. Female wrestlers have a higher level of autonmy needings than male wrestlers while free-style wrestlers have a higher level of autonmy needings than greko-romen style wrestlers. Level of Boldness has been observed at a higher level in those wrestlers, who wrestles in greko-romen style, who are female, who are successful and have liberal v families, than those wrestlers who wrestles in free-style, who are male, who are unsuccessful and have protectşve parents.