Investigation of the Relationship between the Leadership Characteristics and Sportsmanship Orientations of Amateur Football Players

This study has been designed to investigate the relationship between amateur football players' leadership characteristics and sportsmanship orientations. 205 amateur football players, who compete in the amateur football league in Konya and were determined by convenience sampling method, participated in the study on a voluntary basis. A questionnaire was used to collect data. In addition, the Leadership Orientation Scale including 4 sub-dimensions with 8 items each and developed by Bolman and Deal and adapted to Turkish by Dereli to determine the leadership characteristics of amateur football players as well as the Multi-dimensional Sportsmanship Orientation Scale including 5 sub-dimensions and 25 items and developed by Vallerand et al. (1997) and adapted to Turkish by Balcikanh (2010) were used in the study. In the analysis of the data, the percentage and frequency were used to determine the distribution of the personal information of the participants, and the skewness and kurtosis values of the data were checked to determine whether the data showed a normal distribution. In addition to descriptive statistical models, Anova and correlation analysis methods were used in the statistical analysis of data (alpha = 0.05). As a result, it was concluded that there was a significant difference between the sub-dimensions of the leadership orientation scale and the multidimensional sportsmanship orientation scale according to the age variable, and a positive correlation between the two scales according to the correlation analysis conducted between the leadership orientation scale and the multidimensional sportsmanship orientation scale. According to the position variable, no significant difference was found in the leadership orientation scale and multidimensional sportsmanship orientation scale. The current limitations of the research and evaluations for possible future studies have been discussed in this context.