Abstract:

The aim of this study is to examine the psychological endurance and self-esteem levels of the arm wrestling athletes according to different variables. The study group of the research consists of 200 males and 66 females; a total of 266 people, who are between 18 and 45 years old and participated in Turkey arm-wrestling championship in 2018. In this study, as the data collection tools the self-esteem scale, developed by Rosenberg (1965) and adapted to Turkish by Çuhadaroğlu (1986) and the psychological endurance scale in adults which was developed by Friborg et al. (2005) and adapted to Turkish by Basim and Cetin (2011) were used. As a result of the normality test, non-parametric tests were used since the p values obtained for self-esteem level and psychological endurance were less than 0.05. Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) 17.0 package program was used for the analysis of the obtained data. In the analysis of the data; Mann-Whitney U Test was used in paired groups and Kruskal Wallis Tests were used in multiple groups. Pairwise Comparison Test was used to determine the differences between groups. The significance level was accepted as p < 0.05). As a result, it is concluded that there is a statistically significant difference in psychological endurance subscales in favor of 26-29 age group , there is a statistically significant difference in the social competence subscale in favor of the age group 35 and above, there is a significant difference in favor of primary school in the structural style subscale of the psychological endurance according to the educational level of the mother, there is also statistically significant difference in the perception of future, family harmony, self-perception, social competence and total endurance in favor of primary school, in the social resources subscales, it is concluded that there is a statistically significant difference in favor of secondary school, there is a statistically significant difference in favor of 501-1000 tl according to income level variable, when we look at the average of psychological endurance subscales according to income level variable, there is a statistically significant difference in favor of 501-1000 tl in self-perception subscale. However, it is concluded that there is no statistically significant difference in the self-esteem and psychological endurance subscales of the arm wrestling athletes according to gender, marital status, father's educational level, duration of sports, who was raised by and the interest variable in childhood.

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