Global Advanced Research Journal of History, Political Science and International Relations ISSN: 2315-506X Vol. 2(2) pp. 027-033, May, 2013 Available online http://garj.org/garjhpsir/index.htm Copyright © 2013 Global Advanced Research Journals Full Length Research Paper Ünsal Tazegül*, Aytekin Soykan and Hamdi Sancaklı Abstract The aim of this study is to demonstrate the relationship between wrestlers' motivation and narcissism level by determining their narcissism and motivation tendencies. Narciccism personality scale and motivation tendency scale are used for gathering data in this study. . In the analysis of the data, SPSS 15 program was used. “Kolmogorov-Smirnov” and ''Anova-Homogenety of variances” tests were applied in order to determine if the data are normally distributed. The tests results indicated that the data are normally distributed and homogeny. Descriptive statistic test for analysing the data and Pearson correlation and regression tests for examining the relationship between narcissism and motivation tendencies of wrestlers are used in the study. At the end, while the findings show that wrestler's motivation tendency is of a fine one, findings also showed that there is a negative correlation between narcissism and abstaining from success. Keywords: Narcissism, motivation, success, wrestling, INTRODUCTİON Narcissistic personality is defined as the person who admires his physical and psychological characteristics and is so much full of himself (Güney 1998). According to Freud, he describes narcissism as libidinal investment from the outside world by pulling one's self directed and he talks about two kinds of narcissism. Primary narcissism is described as the child's libidinal investment in external objects, not of self- directed and that all children have to go through such a specific maturation process. According to Freud, primary narcissism and libidinal energy are found in self/ego from the start and they are not directed to the objects. This situation is followed by swelling of the self accompanied by feelings of being powerful and precise. Freud also *Corresponding Author E-mail: unsaltazegul@hotmail.com defined secondary narcissism as relationship difficulties and frustrations as a result of acts of the next process, which is made of the libidinal investment in the outside World and withdrawing from people, directed to self/ego (Gençtan,2004). According to Greek mythology, Narcissus was a young man who fell in love with his own reflection on lake and he drowned when he attempted to hug his reflection. This is the root of the word narcissism and it is described as someone's desire to his/her body (Timuroglu, 2005). Even if Otto Rank used the term narcissism to describe self-sexual love, he also referred narcissism as arrogance and self love (Atay, 2010). Kenten desribes narcissism as a defence mechanism that a child establishes in order to tackle with the anxiety that his/her parents may leave him/her alone by the age of 3. Kenten also argues that this distorted relationship is taken to adulthood via boosted ego (Rataj, 2003). School of Physical Education and Sports, Dumlupınar University, .WDK\D, Turkiye. Investigating the relationship between narcissism and motivation level of wrestlers