The relationship between the visualization of the rafting athletes and their athletic self-confidence levels

The aim of this survey is to analyse the rafting sportsmen's imagination's effect on the sportive confidence.The survey also aims to define whether the result of the imagination indicate any difference or not in accordance with the different factors. Due to the cancellation of the 2021 Turkish Rafting Championship 2nd stage competitions because of the pandemic, this research consists of 350 licensed athletes who participated in the 1st stage of Turkey Rafting Championship held in 2020. Therefore my sample consists of 221 athletes who are selected on a voluntary basis from those participating in this tournamaent. In this survey, the questions consisting of demograpraphic information, The Scale of Imagery Inventory in Sport and The Continuous Sportive Self-Confidence Scale are used.While performing the analysis SPSS 22,0 statistic program was used.The significance level was defined as P< 0.05. "Independent Sample t-Test" for dependent groups and "One-Way Analysis of Variance (ANOVA)" for multiple differences between groups were used to reveal whether the research group differed according to the variables. In the survey, it is seen that a significant difference doesn't occur in both two scales and their sub-dimensions in terms of factors such as educational status,gender,income status,age, the year of doing sports and marital status of the participants. Moreover,the relation between the sub-dimensions as a result of correlation done with the scores obtained by the participants from the test is examined. A low degree of negative relationship has been detected between The Scale of Imagery Inventory's sub-dimensions 'Motivational General Arousal' and 'Motivational Custom Imagery'.Besides this, a low degree of positive relationship has been found between the same scales' sub-dimensions 'Motivational Custom Imagery' and ' Cognitive General Imagery'. As a result,it has been understtod that there isn't any significant difference rafting athletes' sportive imagination and sportive confidence. As the study about the relation between the visualization of athletes and sportive self-confidence is so limited in literature, it is thought that our survey will provide a contribution to the literature.