Irreal performance beliefs and related factors of wrestlers with national team experience

Purpose: The aim of this study is to determine the irrational performance beliefs and related factors of a group of male and female wrestlers with national team experience. Materials and Methods: A total of 187 national wrestlers, 70 women and 117 men, between the ages of 18-37 participated in the study voluntarily. In the study, the 6-question demographic information form and the "Irrational Performance Beliefs Inventory-2" developed by Turner and Allen (2018) and a Turkish validity-reliability study conducted by Urfa and Aşçı (2018a) were used as data collection tool. The inventory is a 5-point Likert-type scale and consists of 20 items. A high score from factors and total means high irrational belief. Since the data obtained from the participants did not show normal distribution according to the Shapiro-Wilk test results, non-parametric tests were used in the evaluation of the data. In addition to the descriptive statistics in the SPSS 25.0 package program the Mann-Whitney U test and the Kruskal-Wallis test used, so as to intergroup comparisons. In addition, Spearman analysis was used to determine the correlation between variables.The significance level set up 0.05. Results: The mean age of 187 participants was determined as 24.25±4.50 years, 22.01±3.39 years for women and 25.59±4.56 years for men. When viewed without gender discrimination, the irrational belief scores of the participants were determined as 70.95±14.70. The score of male participants was determined as 71.35±14.74, and the score of female participants was determined as 70.27±14.79. As a result of the comparison made according to gender, no significant difference was found in the total score and in any of the sub-dimensions. Conclusion:According to the results of the comparison test, while there was no significant difference between the groups according to the variables of gender, sports age and educationalstatus, there was a significant difference at the point of sportive achievement variable between the groups only in the "Depreciation" sub-dimension. Keywords: Wrestling, National Athlete, Irrational Performance Beliefs