The
purpose of this study was to investigate the mental endurance of the athletes
who participated in the table tennis championship inter Universities in Turkey.
To investigate the mental endurance of the athletes who participated in the
study, the mental endurance rubric whose validity and reliability work has been
done by Erdoğan (2016) was used. Also, some questions including some personal
data of the subjects were also included in the inventory. For statistical
tests, The Saphiro-Wilks test was performed to determine if the data had a
normal distribution. Due to data not having a normal range, non-parametric
tests such as Mann-Whitney U test and Kruskal-Wallis test were applied.
According to the results of the analysis, it has been seen that there is no
meaningful difference between the mental endurance score of the athletes based
on categories such as; age, sex, playing sports year, and playing sports under
a license. Results showed that the male athletes (57,79±6,676) have a higher
average of mental endurance compared to female athletes (46,82±6,525), the
athletes with higher playing sports year, 13-15 years, (50,87±6,329)compared to
lower playing sports years, 7-9 years, (57,13±7,731) have a lower average of
mental endurance, athletes who play in the unileage (56,18±7,795) have a higher
average of mental endurance compared to the athletes who play in 1.,2.,3.
Leagues (51,48±5,714) and athletes who play in other leagues or athletes who
don't play in any leagues ((50,98±4,415) and athletes aged 21-23 (54,88±7,142)
has a higher average of mental endurance compared to ages 18-20 (53,38±6,260),
ages 24-26 (53,06±6,752).
Subjects | Sports Medicine |
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Journal Section | Articles |
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Publication Date | December 17, 2017 |
Published in Issue | Year 2017 Volume: 5 Issue: 4 |