Cemal GündoÃÆââ¬Å¾Ãâà ¸du
This study is realized with the aim to determine opinions of coaches in the clubs of Turkish Handball Super League about the risk they perceive by means of certain demographic variables. “General screening model” as one of the descriptive screening models is used in the study. Study population consists of 49 coaches actively working in the Turkish Handball Super League teams, and 45 coaches working as a coach in different clubs and selected randomly constitute sample of the study. Gök’s risk determination survey in sports (2006) is utilized in the study as the data tool. Validation and reliability work of the survey used in the study is performed, and Cronbach Alpha value of the survey used is determined as 0.72. Data is analyzed by means of the statistical package program. Arithmetic mean ( X ), Kruskal Wallis, Mann Whitney U tests are utilized in the analysis of data. Significance level is considered as .05 in the survey applied with the purpose to determine if there is any difference between the demographic variables. The difference between the risk determination levels of coaches participating in the research according to the sex variable is found statistically meaningful (p<0.05). On the other hand the differences according to the variables of age, marital status, educational background, coaching duration are not found statistically meaningful (p>0.05). At the end of the research, it is concluded that male coaches, coaches with university education, coaches at and over the age of 55, married coaches and coaches with coaching time of 21 years and over perceive risks at a higher level respectively in comparison to the female coaches, coaches with postgraduate education, coaches between ages 27- 33, 34-40, 41-47 and 48-54, unmarried coaches and coaches with coaching time between 1-5, 6-10,11-15 and 16-20 years.
