Abstract:

In this study, it was aimed to investigate decision making and problem solving abilities of football players in super league during the competition. 101 sportsmen of 6 teams voluntarily participated in the study who finished the league as first two, middle two and last two and played football in super amateur league of 20122013 season in Mugla. "Melbourne Decision Making Scale I-II" developed by Mann et al. 1998 was used in order to investigate decision making ability of sportsmen during the competition and "Problem Solving Inventory" developed by Heppner and Petersen 1982 was used to determine their problem solving abilities. A negative correlation r=.-261* was determined between problem solving abilities and avoidant levels of amateur league football players. Avoidant levels in individuals playing football in amateur leagues do not show parallelism with problem solving levels in competition or out of competition. As a result; it was found that amateur football players with high self-respect had high level of decision making and those who had inadequate self-respect and self-esteem values escaped from the events during the competition and had shy behavior

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