Psychological Skill of University Basketball Athletes in Each Playing Position in Indonesia

Year 2024, Volume: 7 Issue: 5, 1098 - 1105, 25.09.2024

Komarudin Komarudin , Alen Rismayadi , Mochamad Yamin Saputra , Geraldi Novian , Xuan Quynh Lai , Tite Juliantine , Azman Ahmad Tajri

https://doi.org/10.33438/ijdshs.1508145

Abstract

The role of psychological skills in sport is one of the cores of research and practice in sports psychology. Even if there is, especially in basketball sport, it is limited to an overview of the physical aspects. For this reason, this research was aimed of examining whether there is a difference in psychological skills of basketball athletes in each playing position based on five playing positions, namely point guard, shooting guard, small forward, power forward, and center. The study was conducted using a quantitative descriptive method with a retrospective causal-comparative design, or ex-post facto design, on 100 basketball athletes from seven provinces spread across 31 universities in Indonesia, consisting of 38 male athletes and 62 female athletes. All collected data were analyzed using one way-ANOVA technique. The results of the analysis found that there were differences in the psychological skills of university basketball athletes in each playing position of in Indonesia. According to the results of the analysis for psychological skills by playing position in Indonesian university basketball athletes in Table 3, (F(4,99) = 3.483, significant at p = 0.011 <0.05. The point guard position shows the highest psychological characteristics, while the lowest score is occupied by the small forward position. Coaches can use the results of this study to better understand the psychological characteristics of athletes in different playing positions as well as developing more appropriate types of psychological skills training interventions to each playing position.

Keywords

Psychological skills, Playing position, Basketball

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