SUMMARY
An athlete always wants to be appreciated, loved and respected. In this study conducted with the purpose of determining the basic psychological needs of the students studying in schools of physical education and sports, faculties of sports sciences and other higher education institutions offering sports education, whether the athlete students are aware of their basic psychological needs has been analyzed. Another purpose of the research is to determine which psychological needs the students receiving sports education have most and to make interpretations as per the results yielded by the sub-dimensions of the scale. The questionnaire method was used in the research with the purpose of determining the basic psychological needs of students. The scale used in the research is New Psychological Needs Scale (NPNS) developed by Heckert et al. (2000) and adapted into Turkish and its reliability and validity tests conducted by Kesici (2007). NPNS is a 20-item five point Likert grading scale (“1” for totally disagree, “2” for disagree, “3” for hesitant, “4” for agree, “5” for totally agree). SPSS 18.0 package program was used in analysis of data. Percentage, frequency, average, standard deviation values were used for descriptive information; independent t-test was used for the comparison of different groups and one-way variance analysis (ANOVA) was used for the comparison of multiple groups. In sports with the significance level of p<0.05 obtained after the statistical calculation between the variables of students, some differences were ascertained between sexes and the point average of basic psychological needs of girls was found to be higher than boys. It is known very well that women are more sensitive and emotional in their nature. Their special days and the hormones secreted considerably affect and change their feelings and thoughts. ÖzetSosyal bir olgu olan sporunda kisilerde birçok psikolojik ihtiyaç ortaya çikardigi bir gerçektir. Bir sporcu takdir edilmek, sevilmek, sayginlik kazanmak her zaman isteyecektir. Beden egitimi ve spor yüksekokullarinda, spor bilimleri fakültelerinde ve spor egitimi veren diger yüksekögretim kurumlarinda ögrenim gören ögrencilerin temel psikolojik ihtiyaçlarinin belirlenmesi amaciyla yapilan bu çalismada ayni zamanda sporcu ögrencilerin temel psikolojik ihtiyaçlarinin farkinda olup olmadiklari da incelenmistir. Arastirmada ögrencilerin temel psikolojik ihtiyaçlarini belirlemek amaciyla anket yöntemi kullanilmistir. Arastirmada kullanilan ölçek Heckert ve Ark. (2000) tarafindan gelistirilen Türkçeye uyarlamasi ve geçerlilik güvenilirlik testini Kesici (2007)’nin yapmis oldugu (YPIÖ) Yeni Psikolojik Ihtiyaçlar Ölçegidir. YPIÖ 20 madden olusan bes basamakli Likert (“1” hiç katilmiyorum, “2” katilmiyorum, “3” kararsizim, “4” katiliyorum, “5” tamamen katiliyorum) bir dereceleme ölçegi seklindedir. Verilerin analizinde SPSS 18.0 paket programindan yararlanilmistir. Betimleyici bilgiler için yüzde, frekans, ortalama, standart sapma degerleri, farkli gruplarin karsilastirilmasinda bagimsiz t-testi, çoklu gruplarin karsilastirilmasinda ise tek yönlü varyans analizi (ANOVA) kullanilmistir. Arastirmada verilerin analizi sonucunda spor egitimi alan ögrencilerin temel psikolojik ihtiyaçlari çesitli degiskenler açisindan incelenmis ve cinsiyetler arasinda p<0,05 düzeyinde anlamli farklilik tespit edilmistir. Buna göre kadin katilimcilarin, erkek katilimcilara göre temel psikolojik ihtiyaçlari düzeyi daha yüksek bulunmustur. Diger degiskenler arasinda anlamli farkliliklara rastlanmamistir.