Evaluation of self-leadership behaviors and academic motivation of sports management students: The case of İstanbul

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the relationship between self-leadership behaviours and academic motivations of sports management students. In accordance with this purpose of the research, the relational screening method and the casual-comparative method were used. In the study ,which used the survey technique as a data collection method , face to face and online surveys were gathered on a voluntary basis.The population of the research , İstanbul University, Marmara University , İstanbul Gelişim University , İstanbul Aydın University , Nişantaşı University and İstanbul Esenyurt University , 1st , 2nd , 3rd , and 4th Grade Sports Management Department students ,and the sample constituted of 321 volunteer students. Personal information form , self-leadership and academic motivation scales were applied to the participants. The data obtained from the personal information form, academic motivation scale and self-leadership scale were entered into the IBM SPSS 25.0 package program and analyzes were made through this program. Whether the scores showed a normal distribution was checked by means of normal distribution curves, skewness-kurtosis values, histograms, and Kolmogorov-Smirnov test values, which were taken as a basis in cases where the number of participants was greater than 50, were examined. Reliability analyzes were performed to determine the reliability levels of the overall scale and its sub-dimensions, and as a result, the "Chronbach Alpha Coefficient" was obtained. As a result of the analysis, it was concluded that the data showed a normal distribution. One-way Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) and Independent T-Test analysis and Pearson Correlation analyzes were used for statistical analysis. It was determined that there wasn't significant difference between the gender variable and the level of self-leadership, and there was a significant difference in the academic motivation general score to experience a stimulation in the dimensions of intrinsic motivation and introverted extrinsic motivation. It has been observed that there is a significant difference between the variables of working status and class, and the dimensions of intrinsic motivation to experience a stimulation and introverted extrinsic motivation.It has been determined that there is a significant difference between the age variable and the intrinsic motivation to experience a stimulation , determined extrinsic motivation, introverted extrinsic motivation and extrinsic motivation external regulation dimensions. There isn't significant difference between the university variable and the determined extrinsic motivation dimension. It has been determined that there is a significant difference between the income status variable and the level of self-leadership and there is also a significant difference in the dimensions of intrinsic motivation to know and intrinsic motivation to experience a stimulation.