Is Wrestling a Promising Sport for Youngsters from Deprived Regions?
This study aimed at exploring the social factors in lead young wrestlers with disadvantaged background and from deprived regions to take up wrestling. Utilizing a cross-sectional survey design, the research explores demographics, socioeconomic status, and the motivators behind wrestling involvemen...
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| author | Celal Taşkıran Mehmet Kutlu Erkan Demirkan Turgut Yıldırım |
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| description | This study aimed at exploring the social factors in lead young wrestlers with disadvantaged background and from
deprived regions to take up wrestling. Utilizing a cross-sectional survey design, the research explores demographics, socioeconomic status, and the motivators behind wrestling involvement among 129 participants aged 9 to 16. Purposefully selecting
regions with limited wrestling activity, the study is part of a special project. Conducted incentive camping period in Antalya study
reveal that key motivators to wrestlers include Physical Education Teachers (PET) (22%), friends (19%), siblings (15%), fathers
(12%) and others (14%). Although, there were 70% of participants who have some idols from countrywide, it was found that they
have lack of idols in the regions of our participant group. Despite wrestlers have some disadvantages in social status such as
the lack of wrestling authority in family members, camping affected them positively and encouraged them in wrestling career.
Prospective wrestlers had declared that they come from low-income families underlining the socio-economic difficulties. It is
thought that situations such as conducting the study in a seaside camp in a 5-star hotel, recognizing idol athletes increase the
children’s interest in wrestling and will have a positive effect on their future sports life despite their disadvantaged backgrounds |
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| spelling | doaj-art-d80f9644afa44c07abc0c79d462779c22025-08-20T02:50:23ZengWydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu SzczecińskiegoCentral European Journal of Sport Sciences and Medicine2300-97052024-01-014710.18276/cej.2024.3-02Is Wrestling a Promising Sport for Youngsters from Deprived Regions?Celal Taşkıran0Mehmet Kutlu1Erkan Demirkan2Turgut Yıldırım3Physical Education Department, Faculty of Sport Sciences, Hitit University, Corum, TurkeyPhysical Education Department, Faculty of Sport Sciences, Hitit University, Corum, TurkeyCoaching Department, Faculty of Sport Sciences, Hitit University, Corum,TurkeyCoaching Department, Faculty of Sport Sciences, Hitit University, Corum,TurkeyThis study aimed at exploring the social factors in lead young wrestlers with disadvantaged background and from deprived regions to take up wrestling. Utilizing a cross-sectional survey design, the research explores demographics, socioeconomic status, and the motivators behind wrestling involvement among 129 participants aged 9 to 16. Purposefully selecting regions with limited wrestling activity, the study is part of a special project. Conducted incentive camping period in Antalya study reveal that key motivators to wrestlers include Physical Education Teachers (PET) (22%), friends (19%), siblings (15%), fathers (12%) and others (14%). Although, there were 70% of participants who have some idols from countrywide, it was found that they have lack of idols in the regions of our participant group. Despite wrestlers have some disadvantages in social status such as the lack of wrestling authority in family members, camping affected them positively and encouraged them in wrestling career. Prospective wrestlers had declared that they come from low-income families underlining the socio-economic difficulties. It is thought that situations such as conducting the study in a seaside camp in a 5-star hotel, recognizing idol athletes increase the children’s interest in wrestling and will have a positive effect on their future sports life despite their disadvantaged backgroundshttps://wnus.usz.edu.pl/cejssm/en/issue/1425/article/21175/candidate wrestlersmotivatorsdemographic featuresdeprived regions |
| spellingShingle | Celal Taşkıran Mehmet Kutlu Erkan Demirkan Turgut Yıldırım Is Wrestling a Promising Sport for Youngsters from Deprived Regions? Central European Journal of Sport Sciences and Medicine candidate wrestlers motivators demographic features deprived regions |
| title | Is Wrestling a Promising Sport for Youngsters from Deprived Regions? |
| title_full | Is Wrestling a Promising Sport for Youngsters from Deprived Regions? |
| title_fullStr | Is Wrestling a Promising Sport for Youngsters from Deprived Regions? |
| title_full_unstemmed | Is Wrestling a Promising Sport for Youngsters from Deprived Regions? |
| title_short | Is Wrestling a Promising Sport for Youngsters from Deprived Regions? |
| title_sort | is wrestling a promising sport for youngsters from deprived regions |
| topic | candidate wrestlers motivators demographic features deprived regions |
| url | https://wnus.usz.edu.pl/cejssm/en/issue/1425/article/21175/ |
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