Özet:

Mental Training in athletics means preparing the mind to help you perform at your best, mentally and physically. Mental factors such as confidence, focus, self-belief, and motivation are crucial to athletic performance. Mental training in sports gives you the mental exercises to build these qualities proactively. It also teaches tools and strategies to prepare you for uncontrollables that you might face so that you can consistently perform at your best. In this study, it was aimed to compare the mental training skill levels used by handball and basketball games. Relational screening model was used in the research. The study group consists of 400 athletes. In the study, the Mental Training Inventory in Sports 'SZAE' (The Sport Mental Training Questionnaire 'SMTQ'), developed by Behnke et al., (2017) and adapted into Turkish by doing validity and reliability studies by Yarayan and İlhan (2018), was used. In addition, a personal information form containing the demographic information of the participants was used as a data collection tool. In the research, SPSS 24 package program was used in the analysis of the data.

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