© Journal of Health, Sport and Tourism ISSN: 2078-0273, Vol. 6. No. 1, 2015 | 5 EXAMINATION OF WRESTLERS’ LEVELS OF COMMUNICATIVE SKILLS ACCORDING TO SOME VARIABLE’S Şıh Mehmet Yiğit 1 , Mehmet Dalkılıç 2 , A. Cenk Gürkan 3 , Eyüp Acar 4 , Hasan Ulukan 5 , Aslı Esenkaya 5 1 Namık Kemal University,School of Physical Education and Sports, Tekirdağ, 2 Kilis 7 Aralik University, School of Physical Education and Sports, Kilis, 3 Gazi University, Health Services, Vocational Schools, Ankara 4 Ministry of Education, 5 Adnan Menderes University, Aydin Vocational School (TURKEY) *Corresponding author: m.dalkilic@hotmail.com DOI: 10.7813/jhst.2015/6-1/1 Received: 28 Nov, 2015 Accepted: 18 Jan, 2015 ABSTRACT The purpose of the study is to examine the level of communication skills of wrestlers who participated in inter-university wrestling championship. Research group is included with 34 girls, 196 boys, totally 230 athlete’s and sportswomen who participated in Turkey inter-university wrestling championship. In this research,personal information form created by the researcher and assesment scale of communication skills devoloped by Korkut (1996) are applied to gather information about the perceptions of communication scales of wrestlers who participated Turkey inter-univercity wrestling championship. SPSS 20 statistic package program is used to solve and evaluate data.A result of this study, while there are not any meaningful differences among branch variables of students who participate on the championship, variables of their selecting their school branch whether willingly or not, class variable and gender variable, some significant differences between the type of education variable and age variable are found. Key words: Physical Education, Communication, Wrestling 1. INTRODUCTION Communication is the act of interaction that connects people since the beginning of humanity because of their needs for basic needs, living and being together; and it enables them to live in harmony as a society. Communication enables human beings to establish healthy relationships with other people, and to strengthen these relationships using some feelings and thoughts in accordance with common purposes. In this context, a healthy education process necessitates a healthy communication process and this situation increases the importance of this process. Every human being perceives and interprets communication in different ways (Hall, 1977). Human beings develop, mature, expand their worlds; increase their knowledge, manners, experience in the communication process. They become a part of a society that communicates with each other; and maintains their existence. In short, communication is necessary for human beings as air, water, nutrition (Kiral and Figen, 2007). The word “communication” derives from the Latin words “communis” which means common, and “communicare” which means “making common” (Guclu, 2007:193). In other words, communication can be defined as the process of making the same meaning common among two or more individuals. The main purpose here is sharing feelings, thoughts, knowledge and skills (Ozerbas, 2007). Communication requires not only the delivering of meanings, but also their being understood (Robbins,1991:141). Namely, communication is a multi-directional phenomenon that involves the exchange of messages or thoughts, feelings or knowledge via verbal or non-verbal mediums (Margaret et al, 2010). Establishing better relationships with other people increases self-respect and helps developing social relationships (Caputo, Harry and Colleen, 1994:5). In other words, the purpose of communication is conveying knowledge to each other or to others (Vckers,2006). Lasswell states that the most convenient way to define the act of communication is seeking answers to these questions. “Who says what to whom in what channel with what effect?”. According to Lasswell, communication is a linear one-way process. Namely, the message from the communicator reaches to the audience through a medium and thus the message causes a change in the audience. Therefore, communication is considered as a process of persuasion in principle. In addition, Lasswell assumes that messages are always effective. Message is sent from the resource, reaches to the target through medium and consequently causes change (Tekinalp S, Uzun R, 2006.) Lunenburg and Ornstein (Lunenburg, Ornstein,1991) emphasize that in order to realize an effective communication, overcome communication barriers and strengthen mutual understanding, both trainers and players need to pay lasting efforts. Besides, they state that the communication within teams should be developed in order to overcome communication barriers, and for this having the skills of repetition, empathy, understanding, feedback and listening is of importance. It is pretty hard to establish successful relationships without communication in today's society and organizational life. For this reason, effective communication is of utmost importance to be successful in both individual and professional lives; and it is also necessary for managing people groups (Singer,1990). Communication is very important for players in both individual and especially team sports. Two-way and peer to peer communication among trainer, player and players is a factor that affects success in a positive way both in terms of motivation and evaluating the state of players better. As a means of education, sports is movements, games and competitions that form the characters of human beings. For all of the elements, the purpose is not only having rest or entertainment, but also social interaction. Above all, sports motivates individuals for a couple of ideals. It helps obtaining the results for something that is wanted to be done as soon as possible. It makes masses familiar to each other. It is the means of propaganda for countries (Savas I, 1993; 32). In accordance with these information, the purpose of the present research is; examining the communication skill levels of students who participate in Turkey Inter-university Wrestling Competition and study at Schools of Physical Education and