The relationship between psychological resilience, dispositional flow and motivation in the exercise participants

ABSTRACT THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PSYCHOLOGICAL RESILIENCE, DISPOSITIONAL FLOW AND MOTIVATION IN THE EXERCISE PARTICIPANTS The primary motive of the current study is to gain an insight into the relationship between psychological resilience, dispositional flow state and motivation in exercise participants. The study consists of a total of 300 participants (149 females and 151 males) who studied in different faculties and vocational schools of Pamukkale University during 2015-2016 academic year. In the determination of the dispositional flow levels of the subjects, "Dispositional Flow Scale-2 Short Form", in the determination of the psychological resilience of the subjects, "Resilience Scale for Adults" and in the determination of the exercise motivation level of the subjects, "Behavioral Regulations in Exercise Questionnaire-2" was used. In the statistical analysis of the data obtained from the research, Multivariate Analysis of Variance, Regression, and Correlation Analysis were used. The results obtained suggest the psychological resilience were evaluated at the end of the study, it was found that only the scores of social resources subscale differed significantly according to gender of the participants and that female participants had higher score, according to weekly exercise frequency it was found that there was a statistically significant difference in dimension scores in subscale structural style, perception of self, perception of future, structured style and social resources (p>0.05). Gender * weekly exercise frequency, gender * exercise type, weekly exercise frequency * exercise type, gender * weekly exercise frequency * exercise type interaction revealed no significant effect on psychological resilience score (p> 0.05). The level of motivation were evaluated when the findings related, it was found that only the scores of the subscale of the external regulation differed significantly according to the genders of the participants and that the male participants had a higher score, only the scores of the subscale of introjected regulation only differed according to weekly exercise frequency statistically and the participants who exercise 4-6 days a week were found to have a higher score (p <0.05). Gender * weekly exercise frequency, gender * exercise type, gender * weekly exercise frequency * according to exercise type interactions it was achieved that exercise had no significant effect on behavioral regulations in exercise questionnaire (p>0.05). The dispositional flow scale of the participants were evaluated according to the weekly exercise frequency, had a statistically significant difference in the dispositional flow scale and participants who exercise for 4-6 days had a higher score (p<0.05). It was concluded that there was a statistically significant relationship between scale subdimensions when evaluating the relationship between psychological resilience the dispositional flow and motivation scales (p <0.05). Keywords: Exercise, psychological resilience, dispositional flow, motivation