The investigation of self-confidence levels of adult individuals who do and do not do sports

The aim of this study is to investigate self-confidence levels in adult individuals who do and do not do sports according to sex, marital status, age, whether they do sports, the number of years they have been doing sports, whether they have been doing individual or team sports and branch of sports they have been doing. A total of 528 adult individuals, 235 females and 293 males between the ages of 18-55, who live in Bolu, Düzce, Sakarya, Kocaeli and Ankara, voluntarily participated in the study. The General Survey Model was used in this study. The Self-Confidence Scale developed by Akın (47) was used to determine the self-confidence levels of the individuals who took part in the research. Statistical analyses were carried out with the SPSS 20 package software. A T-Test and One-Way Analysis of Variance (Anova) Test were applied in the analysis of the data to specify the difference/s among self-confidence levels of the independent variables. The Scheffe Test was used to indicate among what groups the difference/s existed, if there ever was/were a/any difference/s. Significance level for all statistical analyses was taken to be p<0.05. As a result of the study, significant differences were found to exist among average points which adult individuals who had been and had not been doing sports took from the self-confidence scale with regard to variables sex, marital status, age, whether they did sports, the number of years they had been doing sports, whether they had been doing individual or team sports and branch of sports they had been doing. Nevertheless, it was seen that there was/were no significant difference/s among average points they took from the self-confidence scale regarding the individual-team sports variable. Keywords: Self confidence, sport, adult.