Examination of motivation to participate in sports, loneliness and hopelessness levels of hearing impaired athletes

In this study, it is aimed to examine the motivation to participate in sports, loneliness and hopelessness levels of hearing impaired athletes. The study was planned descriptively within the scope of the general survey model. The sample of the study consists of a total of 266 hearing impaired athletes, 70 of whom are female and 196 of whom are male, taking into account voluntary participation. As data collection tools, Personal Information Form was used in the first part, "Motivation to Participate in Sports in Individuals with Disabilities Scale" in the second part, "UCLA Loneliness Scale" in the third part and "BECK Hopelessness Scale" in the fourth part. The suitability of the data for normal distribution was tested with the Kolmogorov Smirnov normality test and it was determined that the data were suitable for nonparametric tests. Spearman correlation test was applied for the relationship between dependent and independent variables. Mann-Withney U test was applied for variables with two categories and Kruskal Wallis-H test was applied for variables with more than two categories. In addition, arithmetic mean, standard deviation, frequency/percentage calculations were made. As a result of the research, there was a significant difference in intrinsic motivation and extrinsic motivation dimensions in the analysis between the motivation of hearing impaired athletes to participate in sports and the time of hearing loss, there was a significant difference in all sub-dimensions between the motivation to participate in sports and the sport branch, and there was a significant difference in the intrinsic motivation sub-dimension between the motivation to participate in sports and the competition category variable, It is seen that there is a significant difference in the extrinsic motivation and amotivation dimensions in the motivation to participate in sports and the variable of international ranking, there is a significant difference in the amotivation dimension in the motivation to participate in sports and the time of hearing loss, there is a significant difference in the extrinsic motivation dimension in the motivation to participate in sports and the educational status variable, there is a significant difference in the extrinsic motivation and amotivation dimensions in the motivation to participate in sports and the perceived social environment variable. It was determined that there was a significant difference between the loneliness levels of hearing-impaired athletes and only the sport branch variable. There is a significant difference between the hopelessness levels of hearing impaired athletes and the sub-dimensions of loss of motivation and expectations about the future between the gender variable, There is a significant difference between the hopelessness levels of hearing impaired athletes and the marital status variable between the sub-dimension of feelings about the future, There is a significant difference between the hopelessness levels of hearing impaired athletes and the time of hearing loss variable between the sub-dimension of loss of motivation, It was determined that there was a significant difference between the hopelessness levels of hearing-impaired athletes and the sub-dimensions of feelings about the future between the variable of sport branch, there was a significant difference between the hopelessness levels of hearing-impaired athletes and the sub-dimension of expectations about the future between the variable of international ranking, there was a significant difference between the hopelessness levels of hearing-impaired athletes and the sub-dimensions of loss of motivation and feelings about the future between the variable of educational status. As a result, it can be said that sports have positive results on individuals with disabilities, reduce their levels of hopelessness and loneliness, and increase their motivation by getting away from negative emotions.