Investigation of orienteer high-schoolers' motivation levels in terms of different variables

The purpose of this study is the investigation of orienteer high-schoolers' motivation levels in terms of different variables. Orinteer high-schoolers' whom attended the 2016-2017 competitions of Turkish Orienteering Fedaration, are the target group of this study which is done by using descriptive research methodology. The sample group is 182 students which were examined in terms of different variables. Research data consists of; Demographic Information Form (found by the researcher) and The Sport Motivation Scale (developed by Fortier, Vallerand, Tuson, Briere and Blais (1995) and translated into Turkish by Kazak Z (2004). The data collected during the research are resolved by SPSS 20. At first, in the analysis of the data, frequency distribution in determining the demographics, T test was used to examine the relationship between two independent variables and motivation levels in sport and Anova variance analysis tests were used to examine the relationship between two variables and motivation levels in sport. The difference between the variables was interpreted on the basis of p.0.05 significance level. In conclusion, this study shows that there is a meaningful difference between the motivation levels of orienteer high-schoolers in the aspects of; how long they have beeing doing orienteering and they are into and weekly hours they perform orienteering. On the other hand, that there is not a meaningful difference between the motivation levels of orienteer high-scholars in the aspects of; gender, age and grade level.