The relationship of correlation (agreement) level of football players ego situation and their positions in their team with their in - field performances

The aim of this study is to present the relationship between the expected ego situations (observed) of football players' (footballers) positions in the team and level of ego situations with their in-field performance. The sample of the research includes 103 football players whose positions are goalkeeper, mid-field players, defense players, back players and strikers and who play in Galatasaray, Trabzonspor and Gençlerbirliği in Super League and Samsunspor and Antalyaspor. Ego Situations Scale was applied to sportsmen taking part in the research as a part of Transactional Analysis Theory. In addition to this, they were made to fill Personal Information Form given by the Researcher. Football coaches were asked to fill Ego State Scale with respect to personal characteristics of the players that is required by their positions. Players were asked to fill the same Ego State Scale with respect to their own personal characteristics. Football coaches were also asked to fill Likert Scale with respect to performances of the players at match and training performances. The positions they play and their ego situations were compared via chi-squared statistics. Also, chi-squared adaptation statistics was applied in order to identify how their performances look according to their agreement situation between their ego situations and their in-team positions. Upon getting the result from the analysis that chi-squared value was meaningful, post-hoc tests were applied. Within the scope of the research, the meaningfulness level of all data were evaluated in the extent of p < 0.05. The analysis of the resulting data was done through SPSS statistics package programme and Microsoft Excel. When looked into the results of the research, agreement between expected (primary and secondary) ego situations from the players in the positions in terms of the ego situation that the position requires and observed (primary and secondary) ego situations in terms of agreement; a statistically meaningful results were got from the goalkeeper, mid-field, back and defense positions. When we look into the positions of the football players in their team and their ego situations and when it comes to the agreement (overlapping, correlation) between ego situation that the position requires (expected) and observed ego situation, it was seen that the performances of the football players were better. When the position and the ego situation were not agreeable, it was seen that the performance of the player was lower.