Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
Global Advanced Research Journal of History, Political Science and International Relations, cilt.2, sa.2, ss.27-33, 2013 (Hakemli Dergi)
The aim of this study is to demonstrate the relationship between wrestlers' motivation and narcissism
level by determining their narcissism and motivation tendencies. Narciccism personality scale and
motivation tendency scale are used for gathering data in this study. . In the analysis of the data, SPSS
15 program was used. “Kolmogorov-Smirnov” and ''Anova-Homogenety of variances” tests were
applied in order to determine if the data are normally distributed. The tests results indicated that the
data are normally distributed and homogeny. Descriptive statistic test for analysing the data and
Pearson correlation and regression tests for examining the relationship between narcissism and
motivation tendencies of wrestlers are used in the study. At the end, while the findings show that
wrestler's motivation tendency is of a fine one, findings also showed that there is a negative
correlation between narcissism and abstaining from success.