EVALUATING PROBLEM SOLVING SKILLS AND GOAL COMMITMENT AMONG ORIENTEERING ATHLETES

Abstract

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.