INFRASTRUCTURE OF BASKETBALL PLAYERS EXAMINATION OF ETHICAL DECISION-MAKING ATTITUDES

Aim: In this study, it was aimed to examine the differences in moral decision-making attitudes of the athletes participating in basketball competitions according to some variables. Method: The study group consists of a total of 232 athletes, 60 women and 172 men, who compete in sports clubs in Denizli province as licensed. The data were delivered to the participants via Google Forms and their voluntary participation in the research was taken as basis. The form used to collect the relevant data in the study consisted of two parts. In the first part, demographic information developed by the researcher, and in the second part, "Moral Decision-Making Attitudes Scale in Infrastructure Sports", which was developed by Lee, Whitehead and Ntoumanis (2007) to measure the moral decision-making attitudes of athletes and adapted to Turkish culture by Gürpınar (2014), was used. The obtained data were statistically analyzed using the SPSS 25.0 package program. 25.90% of the participants are female and 74.10% are male. Considering the average age, the largest group with 70 people, 30.2% is 13-14 age group, in the category section, with 46 people, 19.83% is U17 group, and at education level, with 101 people, 43.53% is secondary school. forms the group. Results: As a result of the research, when the scores of the athletes from the Moral Decision-Making Attitudes in Youth Sports Scale are examined, it is seen that the total scale score average is 34.80. While the average score in Adopting Cheating sub-dimension was 12.45, it was determined as 9.17 in adopting competitiveness sub-dimension and 13.18 in Protecting Winning Fairly sub-dimension. Conclusion: It can be said that while basketball youth athletes support the sub-dimension of Adopting Fair Wins and Adopting Cheating, they are undecided in the sub-dimension of Adopting Competitiveness. It is seen that there is no significant difference according to gender. According to the results obtained, it is seen that there is an intelligible and positive relationship between the age and competition categories of the athletes and all the sub-dimensions of the scale. A statistically significant difference was found at the p