Abstract:

This study aims to study the mental strengths of male and female athletes engaged in the competition industry, their levels of self-capacity and their levels of self-confidence in the sport. Data Edirne Youth Services Sports Provincial Directorate affiliated with Kel Aliço Sports Education Center and Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality affiliated with Cebeci Sports Club, 117 men, 38 women, selected with the easy sample method, were obtained from a total of 155 athletes. The data was collected through the survey using the face-to-face interview technique. The first part of the survey included the scale of mental endurance, the scale of self-capacity and the scale of continuous state of sports confidence. In the second section, there are questions about demographic characteristics. The data analysis used the Mann Whitney-U test. The results of the analysis showed that there was no meaningful difference in the mental resilience, self-capacity, constant sports self-confidence and state self-confidence in the average by the variables of gender, educational status and nationality status. In literature, it is possible to find studies that show the opposite outcome, as well as studies that show consistency with this finding. As a result, the athletes who deal with the competition industry need to be sustainable in terms of their physical skills and mental trust in order to successful results and continue their sports career, and in every way they need to see themselves sufficiently in their private lives or during their sports career. The necessary work must be done to ensure the confidence of the persons in themselves in cases where they do not carry these characteristics or where any of these characteristics is missing or insufficient.

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