Investigation of the Relationship Between Anxiety in Sport and Psychological Resilience in Amateur Football Players

Abstract

The aim of this study is to investigation the relationship between football players' anxiety and psychological resilience levels in sports. The data of the study were obtained from 108 football players who played active football in the amateurleague of the Mediterranean Region in the 2022-2023 season. The data were collected with demographic information form, Sports Anxiety Scale-2 and Connor-Davidson Psychological Resilience Scale. In the analysis of the data, normality test, t-test in pairwise comparisons, ANOVA in multiple comparisons, correlation analysis and regression analysis were used to determine the relationship between two variables. When the results of the analyses were examined, a significant difference was found between the total score of anxiety in sport and the sub-dimension of concentration distraction with the variable of educational status of the athletes. In the same analyses, a significant difference was found between the position played by the football players and somatic anxiety. No significant difference was found between the psychological resilience and sport anxiety scores according to age, marital status variables. There was no linear relationship between athletes' perceived sport anxiety and their perceptions of psychological resilience. Finally, when the results regarding whether sport anxiety perceptions are predictive of psychological resilience perceptions are analysed (p=0,269), it is understood that there is no predictor at the level of significance (R2=0,011, p>0.05). In this context, it can be said that ~1% of the variance explained for psychological resilience is due to sport anxiety perceptions. As a result, no relationship was found between sports anxiety and psychological resilience, but a difference was found according to the educational status and the position played by the athletes. According to these results, it can be said that anxiety and psychological resilience levels of athletes are affected according to their demographic characteristics. It is recommended that this study be applied to athletes in different age categories and in different sports branches and with a large data input

Keywords

• Anxiety in sport
• Footballer
• Psychological resilience

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