International Journal of Human Sciences ISSN:2458-9489 Volume 15 Issue 4 Year: 2018 Examination of the psychological commitment to team of the students of Faculty of Sports Sciences Elif Bozyiğit 1 Furkan Doğan 2 Abstract The purpose of this research is to examine the psychological commitment to team of the students of the Faculty of Sport Sciences. The sample of the study consisted of 242 students (97 female, 145 male) in the Physical Education and Sports Teaching, Coaching Education, Recreation and Sports Management Departments. “Personal Information Form” which was created by researchers and the Turkish version (Eskiler et al., 2011) of “Psychological Commitment to Team” (PCT) scale which was developed by Mahony et al. (2000) were used as a data collection tool in this research. Mann Whitney U test and Kruskal Wallis H test were used to analyze the data. Analyzes were made on the total score of PCT. For this study, Cronbach’s Alpha was found as .80 for the total score. As the result of analyzes, the level of “psychological commitment to team” of the students was found to be high. While there was no significant difference between gender and age variables with the scores obtained from PCT scale, there was a significant difference between department, licensed product purchases, years of being a sports fan, desire to work and possibility of working with the scores obtained from PCT scale. As a result, hypothesis 1, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8 were accepted, while hypothesis 2 and 3 were rejected. Keywords: : Psychological commitment to team; sports; team; sports fan; student. Introduction Day by day, sports is becoming an important part of the society. In this context, it is like an infinite universe for education, management, health, recreational, professional and also for scientific research. However, there is a mass of spectators following the sport. These spectators tend to be fans of the teams they feel close, they love and feel commitment to. Although the football fans are on the frontline, sports branches or the teams that the spectators are fan of vary in different societites and cultures. Because of the rapid changes that take place in the world, people are in a great dissatisfaction with the spiritual direction, even though they reach the level of satisfaction from the material side. People filling the stadiums with the problem of dissatisfaction are the masses called spectators and supporters (Kuru and Var, 2009). In Turkish, sports fan literally means; 1. follower, 2. people who are commitment to the colors, clubs or flags that an athlete or athletes represent (TDK, 2018). In English, a sport that people are going to watch (CD, 2018). The individuals who come together 1 Asst. Prof. Dr, Pamukkale University, Faculty of Sport Science, Sport Management, ebozyigit@gmail.com 2 Graduated, Pamukkale University, Faculty of Sport Science, Sport Management,. f.doganx23@gmail.com Submitted: 2018-07-23 Published: 2018-11-17