The effects of positive and negative emotionality on the satisfaction of sport: a research on elite athletes.

This research was carried out to determine the aspect of the relationship between the levels of the sport satisfaction and the levels of positive and negative emotionality of people playing sports in the elite level and to find out whether there are significant differences between these variations in terms of age, gender, year of sports, the type of sport and the level of education. 467 sportsmen (consisting of 275 men and 192 women) with a mean age of 21.84 +/- 3.85 and with a mean sports year of 9.57 +/- 4.76 chosen from 14 different sports branches with the method of random sampling voluntarily participated in the research. The data were examined by means of computers and the table of frequency and percentage distribution was applied for personal information; Pearson correlation analysis for the relationship between dependent variations and Mann-Whitney U-test in paired-groups and Kruskal Wallis test in more than two-groups for the analysis of the differences between dependent and independent variations were implemented. The significance level of 0.05 was basically used in the analysis of the differences. According to the results of the research, it was found out that there was a positive significant relationship at the 0.01 level between the sport satisfaction levels of sportsmen and their positive emotionality levels. It was also found that there was a negative significant relationship at the 0.01 level between their sport satisfaction levels and their negative emotionality levels.