Mental Fitness and its Relationship to Achievement for Professional Players in the Palestinian Soccer League

Year 2024, Volume: 7 Issue: 5, 1180 - 1186, 25.09.2024

Aseel Qady , Oday Dareghmeh , Jamal Abubshara

https://doi.org/10.33438/ijdshs.1504641

Abstract

The current study aimed to know the mental fitness and its relationship to achievement among the players of the professional soccer league in Palestine, and to achieve the objectives of the study the descriptive analytical approach was used. the researchers designed a questionnaire based on previous studies. It was distributed to stratified random sample consisted of (121) male soccer players from professional clubs, and the study sample was chosen in a stratified random manner, due to its suitability to the nature of the current study. SPSS program was used to analyze the results of the respondents’ responses, and the study concluded that there is a high mental fitness in all its fields (the ability to imagine, mental preparation, self-confidence, dealing with anxiety, the ability to focus, motivation, focus and decision-making and the total score),among professional players and similar regardless of the player's position on the field, the study also showed that the players of the clubs that occupied the top ranks have ahigher level of mental fitness. The researchers suggested the necessary of taking care of mental skills and trying to develop them to raise the level of achievement motivation for soccer players, and the need to pay attention to training mental perception of players, and conduct research on the relationship of mental perception with other soccer skills.

Keywords

mental fitness, achievement, soccer, professional league

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