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European Journal of Educational Sciences, vol.7, no.2, pp.37-48, 2020 (Refereed Journals of Other Institutions)
The aim of the study is to determine the sport spectator identification
level of the sport students with the teams they support. A total of 225 students
at Acibadem University, 74.7% women and 25.3% men, participated in the
study voluntarily. The “Sport Spectator Identification Scale” developed by
Wann and Branscombe (1993) was administered as the data collection
instrument of the study. The validity and reliability study in Turkish was
completed by Günay and Tiryaki (2003). The scale is in Likert-type which is
scored between 1 and 8 and has a single dimension consisting of 7 items.
Scores were represented as 1= not important, and 8= very important, in which
high scores signified high identification levels. The internal consistency of the
scale (Cronbach Alpha) was .93. Shapiro Wilk test was applied to identify the
normal distribution of the data and a non-normal distribution was found. In
the analysis of the data, Mann Whitney U test was applied for gender, and
Kruskal Wallis test was used for age, monthly income, class and teams they
support. To the research results, while there was a significant difference in the
identification level of university students with the teams they support, in terms
of gender, class, teams and matches they follow, no meaningful difference was
found for age and monthly income variables.