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European Journal of Physical Education and Sport Science ISSN: 2501 - 1235 ISSN-L: 2501 - 1235 Available on-line at: www.oapub.org/edu Volume 3 │ Issue 11 │ 2017 doi: 10.5281/zenodo.995649 A SCRUTINY ON THE MORAL DECISION-MAKING ATTITUDES OF THE YOUTH SPORTSPEOPLE IN COMBAT BRANCHES Pepe Şirin1, Özsarı Arif2, Pepe Hamdi3, Fişekçioğlu Bülent3, Pekel Aydıni4 Erenkoy Zeki “ltındag Secondary School, 1 Physical Education and Sports Teacher, Turkey Osmaniye provincial directorate youth sports, Osmaniye, Turkey 2 Faculty of Sports Science, Selcuk University, Konya, Turkey 3 4 Istanbul Gelişim University, School of Physical Education and Sports, Turkey Abstract: The objective of this study is to scrutinize the changes in the moral decision-making attitudes of the youth sportspeople in the branches of box, wrestling, karate, kickboxing, judo, and taekwondo. The population of the study is constituted by the youth sportspeople in Turkey and the sample group consists of 257 male and 135 female, totally 392, sportspeople doing sports in the youth setups of box, wrestling, karate, kickboxing, judo, and taekwondo in the province of Osmaniye. In acquiring the data, for demographic properties, a personal information form and, for moral decisionmaking attitudes, Moral Decision-making “ttitudes Scale in Youth Sports developed by Lee, Whitehead, and Ntoumanis (2007) and adapted to the Turkish culture and examined its test reliability by G(rpınar 4a were used. In our study where the level of significance was determined as 0,05, homogeneousness and variances of the data were determined by conducting a descriptive statistics operation; Kruskal Wallis, Man Whitney U tests were used in determining the changes between groups; and Tamhane’s T test was utilized to determine the source of the difference. In our study, no change in the moral decision-making attitudes of the youth sportspeople in combat branches in line with the factor of period of doing sports was observed, while it was determined that the factors of age, gender, branch, and parental education level are effective in the moral decision-making attitudes of sportspeople and that such effects cause statistically significant alterations (p<0. 05). Copyright © The Author(s). All Rights Reserved. © 2015 – 2017 Open Access Publishing Group 32 Pepe Şirin, Özsarı “rif, Pepe Hamdi, Fişekçioğlu ”(lent, Pekel “ydın A SCRUTINY ON THE MORAL DECISION-MAKING ATTITUDES OF THE YOUTH SPORTSPEOPLE IN COMBAT BRANCHES Keywords: combat sports, youth setup, morality, attitude 1. Introduction Morality is a structure that contains concepts like rights, responsibilities, and wisdoms. The words like good or bad, right or wrong, and fair or unfair are shaped according to the moral structure (Arnnop et al., 2012; Ayala, 2010). Moral task is the complaince of a person with rules for himself/herself first and then for the counterparties (Sezen, 2003). The third meaning of morality in Turkish is ethic Tepe, . Ethics is perceived as the manner of distinguishing between right or wrong as the whole of the standards and principles that steer behaviors in all walks of life (Kaya, 2012). Sports ethics covers the duties and responsibilities of the supporters of a branch of sports, which play a significant part in the improvement of sports in general, and their performance of such duties and responsibilities in line with the universal values such as honesty, justice, openness, impartialness, and respect Dolaşır, Tuncel, and ”(y(közt(rk, Even though sports is a comprehensive contest performed to reach what is faster, stronger, and higher and at the same time, it is a game, race, and entertainment conducted through the universal principles and rules (Yetim, 2005). Sports entertain people and make them spend good time and there is the reality that it directs a person through his/her own will by means of the sportive obligations. Morality in sports starts at this point. Morality in sports is not the set of rules added to sports from outside; they are based on sports. Hence, the wisdoms acquired by means of morality in sports, which we refer to as the sportive wisdoms, stem from the phenomenon of sports (Öngel, 1997). According to Erdemli (2016), a sport is a special life and special morality. A sport is for humans; deterioration of morality in sports is not the deterioration of the sportive event but that of the person performing it. These two concepts have become integrated with each other; if you exclude one, the other will no longer be there (Erdemli, 2008). A sport is at the same time an instrument of moral development (Romance et al, 1986; Shields and Bredemeier, 1995). A sport is divided into two as the individual sports and team sports. Individual sports are the sort of sports that can be performed personally and that usually bring contestants face to face one-by-one in general. A team sport is the general name of the sportive activity carried out as a team with multiple sportspeople (Kurtiç, 2006). In our country, the branches, with which the tendency toward combat sports is considered to be much, and which require individual combat are karate, judo, and taekwondo. In these branches, a sportsperson confronts an opponent and fights with him/her Kayapınar et al., 6 . We can add box, wrestling, and kickboxing, whose audience European Journal of Physical Education and Sport Science - Volume 3 │ Issue 11 │ 2017 33 Pepe Şirin, Özsarı “rif, Pepe Hamdi, Fişekçioğlu ”(lent, Pekel “ydın A SCRUTINY ON THE MORAL DECISION-MAKING ATTITUDES OF THE YOUTH SPORTSPEOPLE IN COMBAT BRANCHES and participants are many, to such individual branches. Such fields of sports are considered by many parents as physical activities, discipline, and martial arts of selfdefense for their children (Zetaruk et al., 2000). The very first rules that sportspeople, just like any individual of a society, must obey in performing their professions, are the rules of morality. It will be in the manner of complying with the rules in sportive combats; being prudent in the case of both winning and losing; having the consciousness that a sportive event is a game, that it is performed for the sake of the sport itself, and that winning or losing has secondary importance; and behaving accordingly. Thus, sportive activities and sports education must endeavor to ensure not only the culmination of the psycho-motor movements of sportspeople but also their training toward contesting by adhering to moral values Tanrıverdi, . Sports education that starts at an early age ensures that success develops in line with the essence of sports. This way, a young one will work out knowing himself/herself and his/her limits and strength as well as what to do to improve them and render them competent and he/she will not overlook morality in sports for the sake of sportive success (Erdemli, 1996). As a sport is an area where moral development can take place, we can construct our character morally if we dedicate ourselves to sports (Austin, 2010). For viewing / downloading the full article, please access the following link: https://oapub.org/edu/index.php/ejep/article/view/1059 . European Journal of Physical Education and Sport Science - Volume 3 │ Issue 11 │ 2017 34