American Journal of Sports Science and Medicine, cilt.1, sa.3, ss.37-41, 2013 (Hakemli Dergi)
The purpose of this study is to determine the relationship between levels of narcissim and motivational
trends in the individual sports branches. The sample of the study includes a total of 350 young athletes in the
branches of boxing, freestyle wrestling, Greco-Roman wrestling, taekwondo and weightlifting, participated in
Turkey Youth Champions in 2011. Sport-specific motive scales (SSMS) and Narcissistic Personality Inventory (NPI)
was utilized in order collect the datas in this study. SPSS 15 package software was used for the data analysis. The
test of Kolmogorov-Smirnov to determine whether the data had a normal distribution, the test of Levene was applied
to determine the homogeneity of variances and it was determined that the datas had an homogeneous and normal
distribution. Descriptive statistics and Pearson correlation analysis were used in the analysis of the data. In the result
of data analysis, there was a statistically significant relationship between the motive to achieve success with
exploitation dimension and the power motive with superior dimension. (p<0,05).