EXAMINING THE DEPRESSION LEVELS OF WATER SPORTS PLAYERS IN TERMS OF DIFFERENT SOCIO-DEMOGRAPHIC VARIABLES

Aylin Zekioglu

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In this study, the purpose is to examine the depression levels of regular water sports players in terms of different variables. The sampling of the study was formed by using the Convenient Sampling Method. A total of 92 people whose ages varied between 17 and 28 participated in the study; and 24 of them were women (26.1%), and 68 were men (73.9%). Sixty-one of the players (66.3%) dealt with water polo, 21 dealt with (22.8%) swimming, 10 dealt with (10.9%) underwater rugby. The participants answered the questions in the Beck Depression Scale, which consisted of 21 questions. According to the results of the reliability analysis, which was made for Beck Depression Scale, the reliability of the scale was determined as 0.94, which is an extremely high value. In the present study, numbers and percentiles of the independent variables, descriptive statistics of the dependent variables (Beck Scale Total Score), reliability (Alpha) and Item Analysis for the Beck Scale, One-Way Variance Analysis (ANOVA) between independent and dependent variables; and when differences were detected between the groups in the variance analysis, the Tukey-b Multiple Comparisons Test was applied to make comparisons between the groups. There were statistically significant differences between the total scores of the three Beck Scale groups, which were formed according to the sports branches the players dealt with; F(2,89)=3.646; p<0.05. According to the result of the Tukey-b Multiple Comparison Test, which was applied to determine from which group the statistically significant difference stemmed, it seemed that the group that dealt with swimming was more depressive than the group that dealt with water polo and underwater rugby; and the group that dealt with water polo seemed more depressive than the group that dealt with underwater rugby. In other words, the Beck Depression Scale scores of these groups were determined to be higher than those of the other groups. The results obtained in the analyses were discussed in line with the literature data.

 

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depression, swimming, underground rugby, water polo

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