Abstract:
In this study, it was aimed to examine the relationship between the goal orientation of wheelchair basketball players and their
motivation to participate in sports. A total of 91 wheelchair basketball players, 40 women, and 51 men were determined as the
sample. The average age of wheelchair basketball players in the study is 29.34 ± 2.91 years. The "Task and Ego Orientation Scale
in Sports" 8, 22 and the "Motivation for Participation in Sports for Persons with Disabilities Scale (MPSPDS)" developed by
Tekkursun et al. (2018) were used as data collection tools. "Ethics Committee Approval" document and research permissions
were obtained from the Ethics Committee for the application of data collection tools to wheelchair basketball players. With the
scales uploaded to the online platform called Google Forms, the data were collected on the internet using the scale method. In
the analysis of the research data, the arithmetic means, frequency, standard deviation, and percentage values among the
descriptive statistics, and the Kolmogorov-Smirnov (K-S) test were used to examine whether the scale data showed normal
distribution or not to determine whether parametric analysis would be performed. Independent t-test analysis was used for the
pair comparisons showing normal distribution. As a result of the t-test, there is a statistically significant difference between the
mean of task orientation of women and men (t = - 6.502; p <0.05). There is a statistically significant difference between the ego
orientation averages of men and women (t = 7.620; p <0.05). As a result of the t-test, there is no statistically significant
difference between the intrinsic motivation averages of men and women (t = - 1.720; p> 0.05). There is no statistically significant
difference between the extrinsic motivation averages of women and men (t = - 1.624; p> 0.05). There is no statistically
significant difference between the motivation averages of women and men (t = - 1.699; p> 0.05). The obtained findings showed
that the goal orientation differentiated according to the gender variable, and the motivation to participate in sports did not differ
in terms of gender.
