The relationship between life satisfaction and alienation level of disabled athletes (Kayseri Case)
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Purpose: The aim of this study is to investigate the relationship between life satisfaction and alienation level of disabled
athletes living in Kayseri.
Material: The population of the study consists of 421 disabled athletes engaged in sports. The sample consisted of
109 disabled athletes identified by simple random sampling method. The study was performed by scanning
method and the data was collected by survey method. Demographic information form consists of 5
questions, «Life Satisfaction Scale» which was developed by Diener et.al. and translated into Turkish by Köker,
of which reliability and validity study had been conducted and the «Alienation Scale» developed by Dean
and adopted into Turkish by Kınık were applied. The obtained data were recorded in the SPSS 23 package
program. Mann Whitney U test was used for comparison of binary groups and Kruskal Wallis test was used
for multiple comparisons. Spearman Correlation test was applied to determine the relationship between life
satisfaction and alienation level sub-dimensions.
Results: It has been determined that there is a difference between life satisfaction and alienation level sub-dimension
scores of disabled athletes according to the gender and marital status, that there is a difference according to
life satisfaction level score and ages of 18-23, 24-29 and 18-23 and 30 and above in terms of alienation level
and irregularity sub dimensions; and ages of 18-23, 24-29 and 18-23 and 30 and above in terms of social
isolation sub dimension and that there is a statistically significant difference between their life satisfaction
level score according to education status and alienation level sub dimension. It has been determined that
there is a negative and medium sized relation between the level of alienation and life satisfaction, weakness
(r = -.491, p =.050) and the irregularity (r = -.619, p =.050) sub-dimension, and that there is a positive relation
between life satisfaction and social isolation sub dimension (r=.795, p= .050).
Conclusions: A medium level negative relation was determined between the level of life satisfaction and alienation with
gender, age, marital status and educational status and between the level of alienation with life satisfaction
and weakness and irregularity sub dimensions; and a high positive relation was determined with the social
isolation sub dimension.
