Investigation of the Mental Endurance Levels of the Athletes Participating in the Table Tennis Championship of Universities in Turkey

Authors : Arslan KALKAVAN, Mehmet ACET, Gökhan ÇAKIR

Pages : 356-363

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Publication Date : 2017-12-17

Article Type : Research Paper

Abstract :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 insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(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 insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(57,79±6,676); have a higher average of mental endurance compared to female athletes insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(46,82±6,525);, the athletes with higher playing sports year, 13-15 years, insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(50,87±6,329);compared to lower playing sports years, 7-9 years, insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(57,13±7,731); have a lower average of mental endurance, athletes who play in the unileage insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(56,18±7,795); have a higher average of mental endurance compared to the athletes who play in 1.,2.,3. Leagues insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(51,48±5,714); and athletes who play in other leagues or athletes who don`t play in any leagues insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(50,98±4,415); and athletes aged 21-23 insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(54,88±7,142); has a higher average of mental endurance compared to ages 18-20 insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(53,38±6,260);, ages 24-26 insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(53,06±6,752);.
Keywords : sport, table tennis, mental toughness