Özet:

The aim is to identify American football players’ decision-making styles and imaging uses and to reveal the relationship between them. Materials and methods: The study group of 82 American footballers, with an average age of 20.81±2.73, playing in the University League. As a data collection tool; Mann and Ark. The scale of decision-making styles developed by (1998) and adapted to Turkish by Sea (2004) and Thomas and Ark. The scale of psychological performance strategies used by the Turkish validity and reliability developed by Miçooğulları (2017) (1999) was used. Data analysis: Imaginative statistics, correlation analysis and multiple regression analysis have been applied. Results: Athletes’ Implementation (Training) scores have been determined to be significantly related to careful decision-making scores in a positive direction. It is determined that decision-making styles reveal 17% of the variance in the training imaging scores and that these variants have a significant level of the training score. It is also found that the self-respect score in the decision-making points in the positive direction at a meaningful level of training imaging points. Results: American footballers use more match imaging but when associated with decision-making situations, the training imaging has been shown to be associated with decision-making styles. This situation has shown that athletes using training images make more careful decisions, and it can be said that athletes with high self-righteousness in making decisions may increase the training images or that athletes with low self-righteousness in making decisions may reduce the training images.

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