Does the undergraduate athletes’ self talk levels affect imagery levels?


ŞAHİN A., BAYKÖSE N., CİVAR YAVUZ S.

Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology, cilt.2017, sa.December Special Issue INTE, ss.867-871, 2017 (SCI-Expanded) identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 2017 Sayı: December Special Issue INTE
  • Basım Tarihi: 2017
  • Dergi Adı: Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus, ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), MLA - Modern Language Association Database, Psycinfo
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.867-871
  • Anahtar Kelimeler: Athlete, Imagery, Self talk
  • Akdeniz Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

© The Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology.The purpose of this study was examined the effect of self talk level of undergraduate athletes in determining the imagery. 381 undergraduate athletes (Xage=22,16± 2,843) participated in this study as a voluntees, 131 of them are female, 211 of them are male sport exerience of undergraduate athletes dealing with different branches of team and individual sports (footbaall, basketball, vollleyball, tennis, track and field, bike… etc.) is 99,18 ± 58,924 monts.). To achieve the purpase of the study, self talk questionnaire was developed by Zervas, Stravrou and Psychountaki (2007) to reveal individual differences in terms of self talk’s motivational and cognitive processes and it was adoped to Turkey by Engür (2011), and sport imagery questionnaries (STQ) which were developed by Hall et all (1998) and adopted to Turkey by Vurgun (2010) were used. For solution and interpretation of the datas, descriptive statistical methods; for independent samples T-test, and Multiple regression analysis were used. T-test for independent samples was used to test difference between self talk levels and imagery levels. Multiple regression analysis performance self talk level is the determiner of imagery levels or not. Analysis performed by using SPSS and research significance was acapted as P<0,05. As a result of this study, it has been absorved that undergraduate athletes’ self talk levels are important determiners of imagery levels, as well as it has also been absorved a significant difference amang imagery levels statistically in terms of sport type. it hasn’t been found a statistically significant difference in terms of gender.