Abstract:

The aim of this study is to examine psychological resilience levels of football players according to the variables of age, gender, marital status, education level, place of residence. A total of 480 individuals, 286 female and 194 male, who were actively playing football in a club during the 2021-2022 football season participated in the study voluntarily. “Brief Resilience Scale”, which was developed by Smith et al. (2008) and Turkish validity and reliability study of which was conducted by Doğan (2015), was used in the study as data collection tool. Frequency and percentage analyses were used in descriptive statistics, while T-test was used in the analysis of binary groups, and ANOVA test was used in the comparison of three or more groups. The results of the study showed that the psychological resilience levels of football players differed significantly according to the variables of marital status, education level and family income, while there was no significant difference according to the variables of gender and place of residence. According to these results, it was determined that as the education and financial income level of football players increased, their psychological resilience level increased. It is thought that determining which variables affect the psychological resilience levels of football players can make significant contributions to football players’ increasing their levels of performance.

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