THE COMPARRISION OF COMMINICATION SKILLS OF TWO ELITE GROUPS PERFORMING TEAM AND INDIVIDUAL SPORT

This study has aim to evaluate and compare the communication skills of team sport athletes and individual athletes. In this study, 80 team sport and 51 individual athletes, totally 131elite athlete, participated as voluntarily from Ankara region. Communication Skills Evaluation scale was used in this study as data collection tool. Statistical results indicated that although both team sports athletes and individual athletes has high Communication skills score there is no statistically significant differences between groups. On the other hand there is no significant difference in communication skills scores of team sport athletes according to success rank in league. In conclusion; although sport can develop communication skills of athletes as an effective part of socialization, results indicate that being a team sport athlete or individual athlete has not effect on these skills. Additionally in this study no significant relation has been found between sportive success and communication skills