Examination of Mental Stamina and Athlete Injury Anxiety Levels of Wrestlers

Year 2024, Volume: 7 Issue: 1, 210 - 222, 25.01.2024

Çisem Ünlü , Abdulkerim Çeviker , Abdüsselam Turgut , Osman Kusan , Efecan Tezcan , Kübra Gür , Turgut Yıldırım

https://doi.org/10.33438/ijdshs.1381006

Cited By: 1

Abstract

The aim of this research is to examine the mental endurance and athlete injury anxiety levels of athletes interested in wrestling from some demographic perspectives. In the study, a descriptive scanning model was used. The universe of the research consists of athletes from various cities of Turkey who are interested in wrestling, and the sample consists of 341 athletes selected by random sampling method among wrestling athletes from Ankara, Gümüşhane, Istanbul, Samsun and İzmir, Kayseri. As a data collection tool, the demographic information form developed by the researchers was used "Athlete Injury Anxiety Scale". In the study, the assumption of normality was first examined with the Kolmogorov-Smirnov and Shapiro-Wilk tests in the statistical evaluation of the data. The research findings were given as n (%), mean and standard deviation values, and the findings were considered significant at the p<0.05 level. In the study, there was no significant relationship between age, undergraduate status and educational status variables, athlete injury anxiety levels and mental toughness levels; When the athlete's age, athlete's injury status, gender, number of nationality variables were examined, it was determined that there was a significant difference in some sub-dimensions of the mental toughness inventory and in the total scores of the scale. As a result, it can be said that demographic variables such as age, gender, being a national athlete are effective on the mental endurance and disability anxiety of the athletes.

Keywords

Athlete, Anxiety, Mental Toughness, Wrestling

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