Adaptation of Dual Career Scale to Turkish in the Elite Athletes

Abstract

This study aims to make the adaptation of Dual Career Scale to the Turkish in the Elite Athletes and to examine the dual career phenomenon by considering the views of international students- athletes. “Dual Career Scale in the Elite Athletes” is a valid, reliable and suitable for measurement tool in terms of dual career planning of athletes. 111 student-athletes have participated in this study consist of taekwondo, karate, volleyball, basketball, kickboxing, weightlifting, fencing, rugby, shooting, ice hockey, muaythai, bocce, judo, darts, handball, wrestling, table tennis, athleticism and wushu branches, 51 of them are woman (45,9), while 60 of them are man (54,1). Total 30 questions have been asked to the participants and these questions cover the demographic information (1-7), sports and university participation (8-12), the familiarities of student-athletes to dual career policies, programs, initiatives, ability to use the documents and dual career support at the personal, sports and academic levels (13-21). The student-athletes have stated that they suffered from long-term absenteeism to university courses (64,9%), missing the university courses due to training periods (60,4%), limited leisure time (59,5%) and overload due to double responsibility (46,8%) while they continue their dual careers. In addition to this, the participants have expressed that they were not familiar to the policies, programs or measures supporting the dual career process (61,3%) and that they were not aware of the dual career policies or initiatives (70,3%), and the existence of dual career policy documents (65,8%). Their responses have been collected through electronic communication tools and processed in SPSS v.25 package program.

Keywords

• dual career
• Elite Athlete
• Scale Adaptation

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