The Investigation of Elite Athletes’ Psychological Resilience

Abstract

The performances of the athletes can change from competition to competition under the pressure of heavy exercise and success anxiety during the season. The help obtained from sports psychology in order to minimize these fluctuations in the performance of the athlete is an important component in increasing the psychological resilience of the athlete. The aim of this study is to examine the psychological resilience of elite athletes in terms of various variables. This research is a descriptive survey model study in terms of defining psychological resilience levels of elite athletes. In this study, the Psychological Resilience Scale developed by Friborg et al. (2005) and adapted to Turkey by Basım and Çetin (2011), and the personal data form developed by the researcher for collecting personal information were used to determine the psychological resilience of elite athletes. The data of the research was collected from 147 national athletes in different branches, including 79 males and 68 females. SPSS 21.00 statistical package program was used in data analysis. Descriptive statistics, independent groups t-test, one-way variance analysis, correlation and regression analyses were used in data analysis. As a result of the study, it was found that the psychological resilience of elite athletes differed according to the athlete's gender, sports branch, their tendency to use doping, whether the athletes make self-talk or not, but did not differ according to the athlete's age, sports experience, and smoking and alcohol use.

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“…However, unlike our findings, some studies in the literature do not show a significant difference between the psychological resilience levels of individuals and their sports experience [63][64][65]. No significant difference was found between the students' goal commitment levels and the variable of doing sports or not.…”

Athlete Psychological Resilience and Integration with Digital Mental Health Implementation Amid Covid-19

“…A descriptive screening model [49] investigated the psychological resilience levels of 147 elite athletes from football, basketball, volleyball, and gymnastics (79 males and 68 females aged 17-21) with the Psychological Resilience Scale. The cross-sectional correlational study [49] investigated resilience along with differences with gender, doping use, branch of sport, and doing self-talk before competition. Resilience was found to be at the moderate level and below the moderate level in different branches.…”

“…Resilience was found to be at the moderate level and below the moderate level in different branches. Özdemir found gender and sport branch differences with males and footballers being more resilient [49]. The psychological resilience process was presented with various stressors inside and outside of sport being dealt with by low or high resilience.…”

Relationship between psychological resilience and stress coping strategies in karate athletes

“…As a result of the literature review, despite the importance of psychological resilience and stress coping strategies in sport, few studies have examined these variables in athletes (Akman, 2019;Alıncak & Abakay, 2015;Arsan & Koruç, 2009;Arslan, 2016;Campen & Roberts, 2001;Codonhato et al, 2018;Erim & Küçük, 2017;Fletcher & Sarkar, 2012;Fountain, 2017;Hammermeister & Burton, 2004;Hosseini & Besharat, 2010;Karademir & Açak, 2019;Özdemir, 2019;Sarkar & Fletcher, 2014;Secades et al, 2016;Şahin & Güçlü, 2018;Tazegül, 2015;Yoo, 2001). Moreover, there has been little research on the martial arts (Greco, Fischetti, Cataldi & Latino, 2019;Litwic-Kaminska, 2013;Özdevecioğlu & Yalçın, 2010;Radochonski, Cynarski, Perenc & Siorek-Maslanka, 2011;Üstün, Gümüşgül, Demirel & Göral, 2014), especially about Karate (Boghrabadi, Arabameri & Sheikh, 2015;Turgut, 2016).…”

“…Codonhato et al (2018) also found differences in resilience between males and females. Some studies found that male participants' perception of psychological resilience was higher than for females (Fountain, 2017;Karademir & Açak, 2019;Ortega et al, 2017;Özdemir, 2019;Ramirez-Granizo et al, 2020). In the studies conducted by Bingöl and Bayansalduz (2016) and Hosseini and Besharat (2010), it was found that psychological resilience does not differ by gender.…”