COMPARING PROSOCIAL TENDENCIES OF ATHLETES AND NONATHLETES

The purpose of this study was to examine the university students’ prosocial tendencies in terms of athletes and non-athletes. The hypothesis in the study was sport has a positive effect on showing more prosocial behavior so athletes display more prosocial behavior than non-athletes. Participants were (n=236) voluntaryundergraduate students from Ankara University, Turkey. To obtain related data, the Prosocial Tendencies Measure (PTM) was administered. The results showed that there were not significant effects of participants on showing more prosocial behaviors in terms of, athletes and non-athletes. Therefore the research hypothesis wasrejected. Results of MANOVA analysis related to gender of athletes and non-athletes indicated that female’s emotional prosocial behavior mean was higher than that of men ( F (1-234)=11,96, P<,05). Results related to branch variable of athletes indicated that mean of anonymous prosocial behavior of team sport athletes was higher than that of individual sport athletes ( F (1-86)=13,05, P<,05).