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Decreasing Vulnerabilities Being Revealed During Stressors and Increasing Resilient Characteristics: The Role of Goal Commitment in Team Sports

Stres Tetikleyiciler Esnasında Gösterilen Zayıflıkları Azaltma ve Direnç Özelliklerini Artırma: Takım Sporlarında Hedef Bağlılığının Rolü

Ender Şenel
Mehmet Ulaş
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2022-01-27
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The mediation model analysis revealed that goal commitment was a critical component of resilience in sport since it had a necessary role to increase resilience and decrease vulnerabilities when encountered setbacks.

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Objective & Hypothesis:Recent studies in sport psychology have focused on resilience and performance in sport.
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Key Findings & Data:As an important psychological performance determinant in elite performance, resilience studies included team and individual athletes.
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Conclusion & Impact:The mediation model analysis revealed that goal commitment was a critical component of resilience in sport since it had a necessary role to increase resilience and decrease vulnerabilities when encountered setbacks.
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⚙️Variables:Resilience · Commitment · Team Sports

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Recent studies in sport psychology have focused on resilience and performance in sport. As an important psychological performance determinant in elite performance, resilience studies included team and individual athletes. This study provides a different perspective to resilience studies with goal commitment approach. Goal commitment is one of the recent factors being examining in sports. The aim of this study to examine the role of goal commitment in team and individual resilience in sport. Two hundered eighty-nine team athletes (Mage=20.18±4.69) completed commitment and resilience measures. Different mediation models indicating the role of goal commitment was hypothesized. The mediation model analysis revealed that goal commitment was a critical component of resilience in sport since it had a necessary role to increase resilience and decrease vulnerabilities when encountered setbacks.

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Spor psikolojisindeki son çalışmalar, sporda direnç ve performansa odaklanmıştır. Elit performansta önemli bir psikolojik performans belirleyicisi olarak, direnç çalışmaları takım ve bireysel sporcuları içermektedir. Bu çalışma, hedef bağlılığı yaklaşımı ile direnç çalışmalarına farklı bir bakış açısı sunmaktadır. Hedef bağlılığı, sporda son zamanlarda incelenen faktörlerden biridir. Bu çalışmanın amacı, sporda takım ve bireysel dayanıklılıkta hedefe bağlılığın rolünü incelemektir. Araştırmaya, takım sporcuları dahil edilmiştir ve bağlılık ve direnç ölçeklerini yanıtlamıştır. Hedef bağlılığının rolünü gösteren farklı aracılık modelleri varsayılmıştır. Aracılık modeli analizi, hedeflere bağlılığın sporda direncin kritik bir bileşeni olduğunu ortaya koymuştur, çünkü aksiliklerle karşılaşıldığında direnci artırmak ve zayıflıkları azaltmak için gerekli bir role sahiptir.

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Şenel, E., Ulaş, M. (2022). Decreasing Vulnerabilities Being Revealed During Stressors and Increasing Resilient Characteristics: The Role of Goal Commitment in Team Sports. Gazi Beden Eğitimi ve Spor Bilimleri Dergisi, Volume: 27 Issue: 1. https://doi.org/10.53434/gbesbd.1006847

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