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European Journal of Education Studies ISSN: 2501 - 1111 ISSN-L: 2501 - 1111 Available on-line at: www.oapub.org/edu Volume 3 │ Issue 8 │ 2017 doi: 10.5281/zenodo.841788 THE RESEARCH ABOUT REASONS OF MOUNTAINEERS' ATTEND TO ICE CLIMBING AND ITS EFFECTS ON THEIR SELF-CONFIDENCEi Burak Gürerii Gaziantep University, School of Physical Education and Sport, Gaziantep, Turkey Abstract: The aim of this study was to investigate the reasons why mountaineers participate in ice climbing activities and revealed the effect of this preference their self-confidence. For this, the data was collected in the 2. International Emrah Özbay Ice-climbing Festival, 22- 6 January 6 in Erzurum. The data was collected through Motivation Questionnaire by Gill, Gross and Huddleston into Turkish by Oyar et al. Participation which was adapted ; and the Self-Confidence Scale developed by “kın (2007). The data collected was analysed through statistical package program (SPSS 16.0) and the results were interpreted. One Way Anova, T-test and correlation statistics were used in statistical analysis. It was observed that the medium of reasons for participation in ice-climbing is low and self-confidence is high. A meaningful relationship was found between these athletes’ reasons for participation and their self-confidence (p<0,05). Meaningful results were gathered in terms of gender, marital status, age and years of ice-climbing experience. As a result, there was a reverse relationship between selfconfidence and participation in ice-climbing. Self-confidence is an important influence on ice climbing. Keywords: ice climbing, self-confidence, sports, mountaineering i This study was presented at the 14th International Sports Science Congress on 01-04 November 2016. Copyright © The Author(s). All Rights Reserved. © 2015 – 2017 Open Access Publishing Group 501 Burak Gürer THE RESEARCH ABOUT REASONS OF MOUNTAINEERS' ATTEND TO ICE CLIMBING AND ITS EFFECTS ON THEIR SELF-CONFIDENCE 1. Introduction Mountaineering is an activity that involves risks like many other outdoor sports and requires highly education and experience (Gürer et al., 2015). Ice climbing is a risky sport involves risks, accidents and even deaths (Anderson, 2010). Pomfret (2006) defines mountaineering as connectedly nature, an adventure tourism which is done in mountainsides in the world and involves ice climbing, rock climbing and hiking. Modern mountaineering, climbing sports and their varieties have developed as a sports branch which started in the Alps of Europe (Moynier, 2004). In the mid 1980s, some new categories of those sports such as ice climbing, bouldering, speed climbing and artificial climbing have diversified, spread and been popular (Schöffl, 2012). Ice climbing has increased its popularity among many recreational activities, and it is seen that the number of people doing ice climbing has increased fast (Anderson, 2010). In 2005, approximately 1 million American citizens participated in ice climbing activities. This rate shows an increase % 42 compare with the year 2003 (Outdoor Industry Foundation, 2006). When it comes to the definition of ice climbing, it means a kind of climbing which is done by rope and safely in ice cracks, vertical and rocky surfaces covered by ice, frozen waterfalls and places frozen distinctively in which water courses are provided to leak from vertical places (Schöffl et al., 2010). Ice climbing generally divides into two disciplines: Alpine Ice Climbing and Water Ice Climbing (Schöffl et al., 2009; Lowe, 1996). An important detail about ice climbing is that it is a sport involving danger (Schöffl, 2012). In the examinations on Pubmed database there are 138 researches on rock climbing, 10 researches on ice climbing, 1821 researches on mountaineering, 5021 researches on the injuries of risky sports and 243 researches on sports deaths (Schöffl et al., 2010). Although ice climbing is a popular sport, there are too little data about the injuries and accidents (Schöffl et al., 2010). In sport climbing, there are too many injuries (Schöffl et al., 2012). In Alpine climbing, there are lower extremity injuries and they are falling down in general. In some researches on the injuries of ice climbing, it is revealed that the accidents are usually in a small scale (Schöffl et al., 2009; Mosimann, 2006). As it can be seen, mountaineering and ice climbing appear as dangerous and risky sports. For downloading the full article, please access the following link: http://oapub.org/edu/index.php/ejes/article/view/945 European Journal of Education Studies - Volume 3 │ Issue 8 │ 2017 502