Investigation of the effects of archery athletes' in sports visualization skills on target orientation levels

The aim of this study is to examine the relationship between imagery skills and target orientations of athletes interested in archery. The research group consists of 251 volunteer athletes, 116 male and 135 female, affiliated with the Turkish Archery Federation between the years 2019-2020. Random sampling method was used to determine the research sample. In the research conducted with the relational scanning method, the Sports Imagery Inventory and the Sports Goal (task and Ego) Orientation Inventory were used as data collection tools. In the analysis and interpretation of the data, firstly, normality distributions were made according to the Kolmogorov Smirnov test and Shapiro-Wilk test, as well as Skewness and Kurtosis values and because p>0.05 and standard error values are between -1,961,96; we can say that the data is distributed not normally. Accordingly, Kruskall Wallis H test, mann whitney u test was used for Independent Samples for variables with more than, In addition, Spearman correlation test was used to examine the relationship between variables. As a result of this study; It was determined that the imagination skills of the athletes had an effect on the target orientation, and a positive difference was found between the imagination skills of the archers and the target orientation. As a result of this difference, it can be said that as the motivational and cognitive special dimension increase, the task and ego orientation, which are the sub-dimensions of target orientation, also increased. As a result, it can be said that variations in the sub-dimensions of imagination with the determined variables has an effect on target orientation. Keywords: Archery, Imagination, Target Orientation