Sporcularda akış deneyiminin yordayıcıları olarak duygu düzenleme becerilerinin ve umut düzeylerinin incelenmesi

The main purpose of the study was to investigate the predictive power of athletes' emotion regulation skills and hope levels on flow experience. Athletes aged 18-29 years (n= 368) living in Istanbul, Turkey were included in this study. The demographic information form prepared by the researcher, Flow State Questionnaire (FSQ), Emotion Regulation Scale for Athletes (ERSA), and Dispositional Hope Scale (DHS) were used for data collection. Descriptive statistics, Pearson Product Moment Correlation, Hierarchical Regression Analysis, Independent Sample t-test, Oneway ANOVA Test and Post-hoc analyses were used in the analyses. The findings related to the correlational analysis of the study showed that there were significant and strong relationships between athletes' emotion regulation skills, hope levels and flow experiences at varying rates. According to the results of hierarchical regression analysis conducted in line with these relationships; emotion regulation skills and hope levels of athletes are determinants of flow experiences. In the analysis, the rate of explaining the flow experiences of athletes increased with each variable added in turn. When emotion regulation processes were added to the hierarchical regression model, training frequency maintained its significance and the explanatory power of the model increased from 6% to 67.5%. With the addition of hope level, training frequency also lost its significance and the explanatory power of the model increased by 4.4%. The independent variables explained 71.9% of the total variance of the total flow experience score of the athletes. Keywords: Flow Experience, Emotion Regulation, Hope, Sports Psychology