Abstract:

The aim of this study was to examine the Mindfulness levels of athletes and their perceptions of challenge and Threat in sports. The participant group consisted of 230 male and 154 female athletes who had a sports background and were enrolled in a university in the Eastern Anatolia region of Turkey. Personal information forms, the Sports Mindfulness Scale, and the Sports challenge and Threat Scale were used as data collection tools. Due to the normal distribution of the data, t-test was used to compare the two groups, one-way ANOVA test was used for comparisons of more than two groups, Tukey's multiple comparison test was used, and Pearson Correlation analysis was performed to determine the relationships between variables. As a result of the analyses, a significant difference was found in favor of men in thechallenge and Threat sub-dimensions, and in favor of those who had been engaged in sports for 4 years or more in the Mindfulness and threat sub-dimensions. A moderate positive correlation was found between conscious awareness levels and the competition sub-dimension, while a low negative correlation was found with the threat sub-dimension. In conclusion, it was found that as athletes'Mindfulness levels increase, their perception of Challenge increases, and as their Mindfulness levels decrease, their perception of threat increases.

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