Research on self-esteem in decision-making and decision-making styles in orienteering athletes

Eroğlu, Başak; Özkan, Zekiye; Eroğlu, Arif Kaan; Bilgin, Şakire

doi:10.1051/shsconf/20163101011

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“…According to the research results, it has been determined that married orienteering athletes prefer both self-esteem in decision making and vigilance decision-making style more often than the single athletes that mostly prefer procrastination decisionmaking style. Also, it has been found out that as the athletes' age and experiences in sports increase, self-esteem and decision-making styles are affected more positively as well (Eroğlu et al, 2016).…”

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Evaluating Problem Solving Skills and Goal Commitment Among Orienteering Athletes

Özdemir¹,

Baştuğ²,

Tanır³

et al. 2018

Journal of International Scientific Researches

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Orienteering is a nature sport that is performed by running, skiing, riding bikes or in other forms and is based on physical and mental efforts and in orienteering reaching correct goal quickly is important. This study aims at evaluating problem solving skills and goal commitment among orienteering athletes. 145 orienteering athletes aged between 18 and 27 were recruited for the study. In order to determine problem solving skills of orienteering athletes, "Problem Solving Inventory" that was designed by Heppner and Peterson (1982) skills and Turkish adaptation of which was done by Şahin and Heppner (1993) was used. In order to explore goal commitment of orienteering athletes, "Goal Commitment Scale" that was developed by Hollenbeck, Williams and Klein (1989) and Turkish adaptation of which was done by Şenel and Yıldız (2016) was used in the study. For the analyses of the data; frequency analysis, Kolmogorov-Smirnov Test, Mann Whitney-U Test and Kruskal Wallis-H Test for comparing more than two independent groups were used. As a conclusion, there was no significant difference among groups in terms of sex and age variables in problem solving skills and goal commitment scores (p>0.05). Despite no significant difference, it may be argued that problem solving skills of male athletes were better than female athletes according to average scores. Yet, there was a significant difference among groups in terms of sex and age variables in problem solving skills and sports age (p<0.05) and problem solving skills of athletes who did orienteering sport for 4-6 years were better. No significant difference existed between goal commitment and sport age. However, depending on average scores it was identified that as sport age increased so did goal commitment scores. A meaningful correlation between problem solving skills and goal commitment was found.

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