Fikret Ramazanoglu

Spectators’ behaviour from the view of security forces in sport competitions

Background Due to the aggressiveness of sport spectators, during their encounter with the security forces the emotions are released and as a result violence often emerges in matches. The purpose of this study is to analyse the spectators’ behaviours from the view of the security forces and to develop effective solutions to prevent negative behaviours of the spectators with the use of the data obtained. Material/Methods: 147 individuals, who are working in the Elazig Police Department and especially those working in sport competitions took part in the study. The interviewees were asked face to face questions from a questionnaire prepared in advance. The questionnaire was composed of eighteen questions with yes, no and partially answers. The findings were provided as per cent results. Results: The individuals believe that: spectators under the influence of alcohol should not be allowed to attend games, which would prevent fanatic behaviours (72.8%), fanatic spectators cause more problems for the security forces in the event of losing a match (61.9%), the attitude of the media increases fanaticism (67.3%), cheerleaders increase the fanaticism and negative behaviours (62.6%), referees are also a factor triggering negative behaviours of the fanatics (49.7%). Conclusions: Security forces reckon that the first precaution against the negative behaviours of the fanatic spectators should include forbidding fanatic spectators to enter the stadiums (27%), educating the spectators (25.1%), making the spectators aware of their behaviours (18%) and as a last resort, using force (14.5%) with arrest (15.4%).

Examining the Decision-making Levels of Glider Pilot Trainers and Glider Pilot Candidates in Terms of Socio-demographic Variables

Abstract The purpose of the present research is to examine the decision-making levels of glider pilot trainers and glider pilot candidates who serve in the field of Aeronautics in terms of certain socio-demographic variables. The universe of the present research comprises of all the pilot candidates and pilot trainers who performed gliding sports at the Turkish Aeronautical Association in 2013. In the present research, 71 pilot candidates and 21 trainer pilots that is, a total of 92 individuals participated. Obtained data was analyzed using SPSS 18 Statistics Software Package, and the significance levels was taken as p<0.05. Frequency analysis was used for personal features, oneway variance analysis (ANOVA) was used to analyze variation by age, and independent t-test analysis was used for license status and profession. Consequently, decision-making styles of glider pilot trainers were higher than glider pilot candidates. Self-respect, avoidant decision-making, suspensive decision-making, and panic decision-making styles were similar.

Job Satisfaction of Physical Education Lecturers Working in Turkey

Abstract Of the 314 lecturers interviewed in this study, 229 physical education lecturers, 46 of whom were females and 183 of whom were males working in 7 universities in different regions of Turkey participated in the research which aimed to determine the job satisfaction levels of the lecturers from the perspective of various factors. Of the total 314 lecturers, 7 (3.1%) were professors, 20 (8.7 %) were associated professors, 63 (27.5 %) were assistant professors, 48 (21.0 %) were instructors, 44 (19.2 %) were lecturers, and 47 (20.5 %) were research assistants. In consequence, job satisfaction differs significantly in parallel to the rise in academic titles and in the years of teaching; moreover, the job satisfaction of participants who work in the most developed region of Turkey is the highest.