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.
Highlights
Human beings today may experience different levels of difficulty in different periods of their lives
It was found that psychological resilience levels of elite athletes from different branches were at moderate level and below the moderate level
It was observed that male elite athletes had higher levels of psychological resilience compared to female elite athletes, and that the elite athletes whose branch was football had higher levels of psychological resilience compared to the athletes from other branches
Summary
Human beings today may experience different levels of difficulty in different periods of their lives (loss of one who is close, difficult working conditions, heavy training, sudden changes in life, natural disasters, failure etc.). In such cases, the individual has to leave their existing living conditions and create a balance according to these new conditions by adapting to them. The determinant factor in this balancing process is the psychological resilience level of the individual. High level of psychological resilience makes this process be overcome in the fastest and most effective way. According to Walsh (2006), psychological resilience expresses the potential of getting stronger and deriving profit from a situation when faced with a difficulty in life (as cited in Akdoğan & Yalçın, 2018)
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