Investigation of anxiety levels and basic psychological needs of volleyball referee accoarding to different variables

Abstract

The aim of this study was the investigation of anxiety levels and basic  psychological needs of volleyball referees accoarding to different variables. The sample of the study consist of totaly 70 volleyball referees (39 male, 31 female) who served in the province of Ankara. In this research,  “State and Trait Anxiety Inventory” which was devoloped by C. Spielberger (1970) and adapted by Öner and Le Compte (1985) and “Fundemental Psycgological Necessity Scale”, which was developed by Deci and Ryan (2000) and adapted into Turkish by Kesici, Üre et al. (2003) were used to collect data. The data was analyzed in SPSS (Statistical package for social sciences) package program, by using t-test, One Way Anova, Mann Whitney U and Pearson Product Moment correlation coefficient. (P<0,05)

As a results; although there are no differencess between anxiety levels and basic  psychological needs (autonomy, qualifying, relationship) accoarding to education levels and referee categories, there are differences between anxiety levels and basic  psychological need (qualifying) accoarding to sexuality. When we examined relationship levels of voleyball referees, there is a significant relationship between  anxiety levels and basic  psychological needs.