IMAGERY AND COMPETITIVE ANXIETY IN TURKISH NATIONAL ATHLETES: A STUDY ON ORAN 2022 MEDITERRANEAN GAMES

Year 2025, Volume: 23 Issue: 1, 154 - 167, 30.03.2025

Tolga Şinoforoğlu , Simge Yalçın

Abstract

This study was conducted to examine the relationship between imagery use and competition anxiety in athletes competing in the Oran 2022 Mediterranean Games. The study participants, which was designed in the relational survey model, consisted of 170 athletes competing on behalf of Turkey in the Oran 2022 Mediterranean Games. The athletes voluntarily responded to the “Sport Competitive Anxiety Test-Adult Form” and “Imagery Inventory in Sport” online during and after the games. The data were analyzed with Pearson correlation and multiple enter regression model after the normality test. As a result, it was concluded that there was a significant relationship between athletes' use of imagery and their competitive anxiety, and it was also found that the “motivational general arousal” and “motivational general mastery” sub-dimensions of imagery explained 34% of competition anxiety. In this context, it is considered that practicing imagery exercises in addition to physical training can help reduce high competition anxiety in athletes.

Keywords

Imagery, competitive anxiety, mental training, national athlete, Mediterranean Games

TÜRK MİLLİ SPORCULARDA İMGELEME VE YARIŞMA KAYGISI: ORAN 2022 AKDENİZ OYUNLARI ÜZERİNE BİR ARAŞTIRMA

Abstract

Bu çalışma, Oran 2022 Akdeniz Oyunları'nda yarışan sporcularda imgeleme kullanımı ve yarışma kaygısı arasındaki ilişkiyi incelemek amacıyla yapılmıştır. İlişkisel tarama modelinde tasarlanan çalışmanın katılımcılarını, Oran 2022 Akdeniz Oyunları'nda Türkiye adına yarışan 170 sporcu oluşturmuştur. Sporcular, oyunlar sırasında ve sonrasında “Sporda Yarışma Kaygısı Ölçeği - Yetişkin Formu” ve “Sporda İmgeleme Envanteri”ni çevrimiçi ortamda gönüllü olarak yanıtlamıştır. Veriler normallik testinin ardından Pearson korelasyonu ve çoklu enter regresyon modeli ile analiz edilmiştir. Sonuç olarak, sporcuların imgeleme kullanımı ile yarışma kaygıları arasında anlamlı bir ilişki olduğu sonucuna varılmış, ayrıca imgelemenin “motivasyonel genel uyarılmışlık” ve “motivasyonel genel ustalık” alt boyutlarının yarışma kaygısının %34'ünü açıkladığı tespit edilmiştir. Bu bağlamda, fiziksel antrenmanlara ek olarak imgeleme egzersizleri uygulamanın sporculardaki yüksek yarışma kaygısını azaltmaya yardımcı olabileceği düşünülmektedir.

Keywords

İmgeleme, yarışma kaygısı, zihinsel antrenman, milli sporcu, Akdeniz Oyunları

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