Sport Consumption Factors of Turkish Extreme Sportsmen

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This research has been conducted to compare the sports consumption factors of the Turkish extreme athletes (N=1574) who took part in seventeen different individual extreme sports branch activities that were held in various provinces and towns of Turkey in 2010.In the research, Extreme Sports Consumption Scale (ESCS) has been benefited as a means of collecting data. Moreover, the comparison of different extreme sports in terms of averages at the level of p 0,05 and p 0,01 has been realized by means of One-Way Analysis of Variance (ANOVA). In addition, to determine the group range of the reason of statistical differences obtained by taking the averages into consideration Scheffe Post Hoc” and “Tamhane’s Test” have been used. At the end of the research, the following have been determined as the most important extreme sports consumption factors: socialization for BMX extreme athletes, values for racecourse / free running extreme athletes, excitement and adventure-seeking for delta-wing extreme athletes, physical fitness for windsurfing extreme athletes, stress-reduction for the delta-wing extreme athletes, perceived satisfaction for windsurfing extreme athletes, perceived value for delta-wing extreme athletes and behavioral intentions for kite-surfing extreme athletes..

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Sport consumption , sport participation motivations , consumer sartisfaction , consumer value , behavioral intentions , extreme sports

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